Huge day for Erik and Lyle Menendez … family members are set to fulfill with new Los Angeles DA Nathan Hochman to debate resentencing the brothers for the infamous murders of their dad and mom a long time in the past.
Twenty members of the family of Jose and Kitty Menendez — who have been shotgunned to dying by their kids in 1989 — will sit down right now with Hochman to ask the DA for a diminished sentence for Erik and Lyle.
As you already know, the brothers have been convicted of the slayings of their second trial in 1996 and sentenced to life with out parole. Their first trial resulted in a mistrial.
Throughout right now’s assembly, the members of the family will communicate in assist of “a resentencing course of that displays Erik and Lyle’s abuse, trauma, and demonstrated rehabilitation during the last 35 years.”
The household additionally notes Lyle and Erik have spent the a long time behind bars “taking duty for his or her actions and contributing positively to their neighborhood via immense private progress.”
Again in October, then-LA DA George Gascon held a press convention saying he would ask a decide to resentence the brothers.
However Gascon misplaced his bid for reelection to Hochman, who has not but mentioned what his place might be on resentencing.
The households legal professionals slammed Hochman late final 12 months … for assembly with the lawyer of the one members of the family who opposes the brothers’ launch.
A listening to is ready for later this month. Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, will ask for not simply his shoppers to be resentenced … he’ll ask the decide to alter the conviction from homicide to manslaughter, which might immediately free Erik and Lyle.
