Los Angeles DA Supports Menendez Brothers’ Clemency Request

The Los Angeles County Attorney says he supports it Erik again Lyle Menendezpetition for clemency to the Governor of California Gavin Newsom.

“I strongly support the compassion of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are currently serving life sentences without parole,” George Gascón said Wednesday, October 30, in a press release. “They have served 34 years in a row and have continued their education and are working to create new programs to support the rehabilitation of their fellow prisoners.”

The DA’s office said the brothers’ defense team filed for clemency on Monday, October 28. The office has sent letters of support to Newsom.

According to Newsom’s official websiteClemency may be a “commutation of sentence,” which includes a reduced sentence, or a “pardon,” which provides “relief from punishment” and restores certain civil rights to people convicted of a crime.

“We have two songs. “I’m doing everything I can, I’ve said publicly, I want them to go home not just for Thanksgiving but for Joan’s 93rd and to celebrate with Aunt Terry as well,” Mark Geragosattorney representing Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, he told TMZ on Tuesday, October 29.

Geragos, 67, was talking about himself Joan VanderMolenthe sister of the murder victim Kitty Menendez (Mother of Erik and Lyle), and Terry Baraitthe sister of the murder victim Jose Menendez (father of my brothers).

The Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996 for the murders of Kitty and José and remain incarcerated at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.

Gascón asked on October 24 in a press conference that the brothers get angry amid renewed public interest due to Netflix’s limited series Monstersand a documentary The Menendez Brothers.

Geragos also confirmed during an interview with TMZ that if Erik and Lyle are convicted, his legal team will request that their convictions be changed from manslaughter to involuntary manslaughter.

If approved, the idea of ​​this change is that the brothers will be released soon because of the time the prisoners have already been incarcerated and that both were under 26 years old when the crime happened.

Erik and Lyle were convicted of murdering their parents in their home in Beverly Hills, California, in 1989 when the brothers were 18 and 21, respectively.

When Gascón made the announcement on October 24, he said, “They have been in prison for almost 35 years. I believe that they have paid their debt to society.”

Gascón said he believes “they are safe to be integrated into society.”