Murdered their parents with shotguns • “They have been lying to everyone for 30 years”
The brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, known from the Netflix series “Monster” and for murdering their parents, will not have their judgments re-examined.
This is announced by district prosecutor Nathan Hochman on Monday.
– They have been lying to everyone for 30 years.
In 1996, the brothers Menendez was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release for murdering their parents seven years earlier.
The Netflix series “Monster” shows how the brothers shoot the parents with several shotguns and then try to make it all look like a gang settlement.
After they were arrested, they have maintained that they murdered in self -defense, that the father exposed them to mental torture and sexual abuse, and that they murdered her mother so that she would not have to live with what she had seen.
However, the district prosecutor does not buy that explanation. He believes that the brothers took several steps to plan the deed and make it look like a gang murder.
“Have apologized”
Most of the brothers’ family stands behind them and, through the organization “Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition”, wants them to be released.
“Erik and Lyle are not the same young guys they were over 30 years ago. They have apologized for their terrible acts. They have apologized to us. And they have shown that they mean it by doing things that have improved the lives of as many, ”the organization writes in a statement.
The brothers have read, among other things, academic degree at the prison and supported other interns, the organization writes.
“Desperate political maneuver”
The brothers, who are both in their 50s, have previously also filed a grace application to California’s governor Gavin Newsom, who said he awaits the prosecutor’s assessment. Former district prosecutor George Gascón recommended last fall that the judges should be changed from lifetime to 50 years, which would make them conditionally released directly.
However, the current district prosecutor Nathan Hochman has dismissed his representative’s proposal as a “desperate political maneuver”.
Governor Gavin Newsom has not yet commented on Monday’s message.