Judge lastly units resentencing listening to for Menendez brothers subsequent week | EUROtoday

Resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez will lastly transfer ahead subsequent week after a collection of delays.

The brothers had been sentenced in 1996 to life in jail with out the potential for parole for fatally capturing their dad and mom, Jose and Kitty Menendez, of their Beverly Hills dwelling.

The brothers had been 18 and 21 on the time of the killings. Defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, whereas prosecutors mentioned the brothers killed their dad and mom for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic on Friday set their resentencing hearings for subsequent Tuesday and Wednesday.

The listening to was supposed to handle the brothers’ request to take away the Los Angeles district legal professional’s workplace from the case, however protection attorneys withdrew their movement.

Jesic, in the meantime, rejected prosecutors’ efforts to withdraw the resentencing petition that had been filed by the earlier district legal professional.

Next week, the decide will hear arguments on the important thing query: Have Erik and Lyle Menendez been rehabilitated throughout 30 years in jail.

Since their conviction, the brothers have obtained an training, participated in self-help lessons and began assist teams for his or her fellow inmates.

The prolonged Menendez household, except an uncle who died final month, has mentioned they totally forgive the brothers for what they did and wish them to be freed. Defense legal professional Mark Geragos plans to name seven members of the family to testify on the hearings.

If the brothers are resentenced, they may change into instantly eligible for parole. The state parole board would finally make that call.

Former LA County District Attorney George Gascón had opened the door to the doable launch of the brothers final October by requesting their sentences be diminished to 50 years with the potential for parole.

His workplace argued that the case would’ve been dealt with in a different way at this time because of trendy understandings of sexual abuse and trauma, and the brothers’ rehabilitation throughout their 30 years in jail.

But present district legal professional Nathan Hochman reversed course and opposed the brothers’ resentencing. He has argued that the brothers haven’t taken full accountability for his or her crimes as a result of they haven’t admitted to lies instructed throughout their trials.

“They’re not ready” to be resentenced, Hochman instructed the decide Friday.

Hochman cited danger evaluation experiences of the brothers performed by a forensic psychologist for the parole board that concluded the lads had been “moderately more likely” to have interaction in violence in the neighborhood.

But Jesic didn’t see something significantly troubling within the report.

The Menendez brothers are nonetheless awaiting the total outcomes of a state parole board danger evaluation ordered by the workplace of Governor Gavin Newsom, who might nonetheless decide to grant the brothers clemency.