Gov. Gavin Newsom has confirmed that Erik and Lyle Menendez will face a parole board hearing in June as part of their clemency efforts regarding the 1989 murder of their parents. The brothers claim new evidence of severe abuse and seek resentencing, potentially altering their life sentences. Opposition from L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman complicates their path, challenging their self-defense claims and aiming to retract a prior recommendation for a lesser sentence. This case continues to evoke public and legal debate over justice and rehabilitation.
The Menendez brothers have continued to lie for over 30 years about their self-defense - that is, their purported actual fear that their mother and their father were going to kill them the night of the murders.
We will submit that report to the judge for the resentencing, and that will weigh into our independent analysis of whether or not to move forward with the clemency application to support a commutation of this case.
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