PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Erik and Lyle Menendez to look in courtroom Monday
Mark Geragos, the legal professional for Erik and Lyle Menendez, spoke to FOX 11 forward of Monday’s listening to and what may come from it.
LOS ANGELES – The Menendez brothers‘ case reaches an necessary milestone on Monday.
That is when the attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez will ask a choose to rethink the convictions of the brothers, who’re serving life sentences with out parole for the 1989 murders of their dad and mom, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in Beverly Hills.
The Menendez brothers are anticipated to attend the listening to nearly from San Diego the place they’re incarcerated.
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The highly-anticipated courtroom listening to will permit restricted public attendance, with simply 16 courtroom seats out there by means of a lottery. The lottery can be held exterior the Van Nuys courthouse Monday morning.
Monday’s standing listening to is predicted to verify particulars for the resentencing listening to scheduled for December 11.
This comes after California Gov. Gavin Newsom declined to grant the brothers clemency, which was being thought of as one path to the pair’s freedom. Newsom deferred the overview of the case to newly-elected DA Nathan Hochman, who’s being sworn in on Dec. 2.
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Protection legal professional Mark Geragos says he’ll ask the choose in the course of the listening to to re-sentence the Menendez brothers on the lesser cost of voluntary manslaughter, a criminal offense for which they’ve already served thrice the utmost sentence.
The ultimate resolution would come right down to the parole board for approval.
The Menendez brothers had been discovered responsible in 1996 of the murders of their dad and mom, Jose and Kitty, and had been ordered to serve life behind bars with out the potential of parole.
Erik and Lyle — who had been 18 years previous and 21 years previous on the time of the murders — claimed they acted in self-defense after struggling years of bodily and sexual abuse by their father. Nevertheless, that protection was not allowed for use of their second trial.
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Gascón introduced in October his advice that the brothers be resentenced after an investigation into new proof introduced to the DA’s workplace – allegations that their father additionally molested Roy Rossello, a former member of the boy band Menudo, within the Eighties, and a letter Erik Menendez wrote to his cousin, Andy Cano, which surfaced in 2015, years after Cano’s loss of life – was introduced.
Their names re-entered the limelight final 12 months due to the discharge of Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.”
Proceedings are scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.
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The Supply: This story was reported with info from FOX 11’s ongoing protection of the case. Metropolis Information Service, the Related Press, and FOX Information contributed.
