The Menendez brothers have officially been recommended for resentencing by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recommended on Thursday that Erik and Lyle Menendez have their current sentences of life without parole be struck down and that they be considered eligible for parole immediately.
“I believe they have paid their debt to society,” Gascón said of the more than 30 years that each has already served, also citing “the things they have done to help the lives of others” while in prison. The brothers were 19 and 21 when they shot and killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.
Gascón also said, “We don’t have a universal agreement. There are people in the office who strongly believe that the Menendez brothers should spend the rest of their lives in prison and don’t believe they were molested,” and several who believed the brothers’ account of horrific abuse and that they should be freed.
The siblings’ attorney, Mark Geragos, along with members of the Menendez family, were also in attendance. Erik and Lyle Menendez’s fates are now in the hands of a judge, who will decide whether the pair gets a lighter sentence, a new trial or a full release from prison.
