Lyle and Erik Menendez‘s aunt, Terry Baralt, has been rushed to the hospital after being discovered unresponsive in a Los Angeles resort room … TMZ has discovered.

Our sources inform us Terry — who’s 85 and battling colon most cancers — has been exhausted, harassed and traumatized within the final yr as the complete Menendez household works to get the 2 brothers launched from jail.

All of it got here to a boiling level Friday when the Menendez brothers appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom for a resentencing listening to. In the course of the tense listening to, the protection crew went at it with prosecutors whereas the Menendez household regarded on.

At one level, prosecutors confirmed graphic crime scene images of the double homicide of Jose and Kitty Menendez.

Mark Geragos — the Menendez brothers’ legal professional who cohosts TMZ’s “2 Indignant Males” podcast — blasted the transfer as a “dog-and-pony present” … including prosecutors are simply attempting to relitigate the unique homicide case. He later referred to as out the D.A. for not exhibiting any concern for the victims — the household — who he says are “being traumatized by the D.A. for political functions.”

Terry spoke out for the primary time in 35 years about her convicted killer nephews and referred to as them “the boys that I didn’t have.”

Terry stated she believes it is time for them to reenter society, including … “It’s an entire department of my household erased. Those which can be gone and those which can be nonetheless paying for it, which have been children.”

The brothers are presently serving life in jail with out parole for first-degree homicide — although they’re scheduled to have a resentencing listening to this week.

Terry stated she visits her nephews as incessantly as attainable, nevertheless it’s troublesome due to her age and since she lives in New Jersey. Lyle and Erik are in custody on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County.