Nearly two dozen relatives of Lyle and Erik Menendez are urging Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon to recommend the brothers be resentenced.
Nearly two dozen relatives of Lyle and Erik Menendez are uniting in Los Angeles on Wednesday to urge the district attorney to recommend the brothers — who are currently serving life behind bars — be resentenced.
Among the supporters expected to speak at Wednesday’s news conference are the brothers’ aunt, their cousins and actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, who has visited the siblings in prison.
In August 1989, Lyle Menendez, then 21, and Erik Menendez, then 18, shot and killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in the family’s Beverly Hills home.
Prosecutors alleged Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their wealthy parents for financial gain, while the defense argued the brothers acted in self-defense after enduring years of sexual abuse by their father.
