US judiciary clears away for the release of the Menendez brothers-Diepresse.com
A Netflix series made the Menendez brothers famous. They were sentenced to life imprisonment without probation because they killed their parents in 1989. Now the brothers could be released.
The US judiciary has cleared the way for the release of the menendez brothers famous by a Netflix series. In the event of a renegotiation of the case to the application for a mitigation, a judge in California reduced the punishment of the two brothers condemned without probation on Tuesday to 50 years to life. This means that Lyle and Erik Menendez, who killed their parents in 1989, come into question for an detention.
The judgment of judge Michael Jesic, who qualifies the brothers for a suspended sentence, was followed after an emotional court hearing in Los Angeles. The brothers took over full responsibility for the crime of back then. « I believe that they have done enough in the past 35 years to get the chance to be released one day, » said judge Michael Jesic when the judgment was pronounced.
The case of the Menendez brothers had been brought into the focus of the public last year by a series of the Netflix streaming service. The then 19 and 21 -year -old brothers killed their parents in the family in Beverly Hills in California in 1989. They were then sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of premature dismissal.
Brothers could now be released on probation
The judgment means that they have already spent more than 30 years behind bars and could be released on probation next month. However, a probation committee decides on this.
In the process at the time, the prosecutors had argued that the brothers had murdered their parents to get $ 14 million faster (12.3 million euros according to today. Supporters, on the other hand, said the brothers had acted in self -defense after they had been sexually and physically abused by their tyrannical father for years under the tolerance of the mother.
The case had been reopened in mid -April. A judge in Los Angeles followed a corresponding application by the former district prosecutor George Gascon on a reduced prison sentence. His successor, Prosecutor Nathan Hochman, had spoken out against the resumption of the proceedings. (APA (AFP)
