The case is still distributed by society. The Menndez brothers mitigated a lifelong sentence
Neither of the couple did not blame.
Los Angeles. A judge in the Los Angeles California district on Tuesday alleviated his punishment by Brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez, convicted in the past to life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release for the murder of their parents from the year 1989.
According to AP, the judge imposed a new sentence of 50 years to life imprisonment. According to the Act on juvenile perpetrators, they have the right to conditional release because they committed the act at a time when they were not yet 26 years.
However, their possible release from prison on the condition must be decided by the relevant commission, the meeting of which, according to the British BBC, is scheduled for June. They will remain in prison until then.
The brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 for the murder of their parents. The couple was 21 and 18 at the time of the crime. Their lawyers did not doubt that the brothers of their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez had been shot by a shotgun, but they described the act as legitimate self -defense against poor treatment and alleged sexual abuse by the father.
According to the plaintiffs of parents in a luxury house in Beverly Hills, they killed the dollars of millions of dollars for profitability. The BBC states that this case, which has become the theme of various books, documents and drama, is still distributed by American society.
During a Tuesday hearing full of emotions, the relatives of the brothers asked the judges Michael Jesic to open their way to freedom and stress that they have changed, AFP describes.
Lyle Menendez spoke in court through video conference. « I killed my mom and my father. I don’t apologize in any way. I accept full responsibility, » he said. The responsibility for his actions was also accepted by his brother Erik, who said that taking the law into his own hands was sick and that what he did was cruel and cowardly.
Los Angeles District Prosecutors recommended the case again to judge the case last fall. They argued with good behavior of siblings and that they were corrected in prison.
