{"id":142018,"date":"2025-05-14T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/menendez-brothers-l-a-judge-to-decide-if-erik-and-lyle-should-be-freed-national\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:02:23","slug":"menendez-brothers-l-a-decide-to-determine-if-erik-and-lyle-needs-to-be-freed-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/menendez-brothers-l-a-decide-to-determine-if-erik-and-lyle-needs-to-be-freed-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Menendez brothers: L.A. decide to determine if Erik and Lyle needs to be freed – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several cousins of\u00a0Erik and Lyle\u00a0Menendez<\/a>\u00a0testified Tuesday on the brothers\u2019 resentencing listening to that they need to be launched after serving almost 30 years in jail for the double homicide of their mother and father, and that they might welcome them into their houses.<\/p>\n

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The brothers didn’t present any obvious emotion throughout many of the testimony as they appeared through livestream video, however chuckled when certainly one of their cousins, Diane Hernandez, informed the courtroom that Erik\u00a0Menendez\u00a0acquired A+ grades in all of his courses throughout his most up-to-date semester in school.<\/p>\n

A Los Angeles decide is presiding over the listening to that’s anticipated to final two days. If he shortens their sentences, the brothers would nonetheless want approval from the state\u2019s parole board to get out of jail. They might then potentially go free<\/a> on time served.<\/p>\n

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They had been sentenced in 1996 to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole for murdering their father, Jose\u00a0Menendez, and mom, Kitty\u00a0Menendez, of their Beverly Hills dwelling in 1989. The brothers had been 18 and 21 on the time of the killings. While protection attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors stated the brothers killed their mother and father for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.<\/p>\n

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Due to wildfires within the LA space, and disputes between LA prosecutors and protection attorneys, the hearings had been delayed for months.<\/p>\n

The case has captured the general public\u2019s consideration for many years \u2014 and final yr, the Netflix drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story<\/em> and documentary The Menendez Brothers<\/em> introduced new consideration to the case. Supporters of the brothers have flown in from throughout the nation to attend rallies and hearings previously few months.<\/p>\n

Hearing begins with testimony from a member of the family<\/h2>\n
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