LOS ANGELES – The public prosecutor for Los Angeles County said on Wednesday that he wants the Governor of California Clemency to allow Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who are lifelong for the killing of their parents in 1989.
District lawyer George Gascón announced that he was requesting less than a week after he is recommended to be called in their murder case.
“I support strength clementia for Erik and Lyle Mendez, who currently serve sentences of life without the possibility of conditional release,” Gascón said in a statement. “They have served 34 years respectively and have continued their education and worked to create new programs to support the rehabilitation of fellow prisoners.”
Lawyers for the brothers submitted requests for Clemency to GOV. Gavin Newsom.
Clemency would allow the brothers, whose first trial period was a national media sensation, to be released immediately and is separate from the resort of resort.
A spokesperson for the Newsom office refused to comment on whether Newsom, a democrat, is inclined to grant clementia.
“In anticipation of Clemency applications, we are confidential and we are unable to discuss individual cases,” the spokesperson said in an e -mail. There is no set timeline for the Clementia evaluation.
The brothers killed their parents, entertainment company Executive José Mendendez and Kitty Menendez, with shotguns in their house in Beverly Hills in 1989.
Lawyers for the brothers claimed that their father sexually abused them. After two processes, they were convicted of murder and convicted to life without a conditional release. During the second trial, most claims for sexual abuse were considered non -imminent in court.
Gascón, a progressive public prosecutor who was chosen in 2020 and was re -elected this year, submitted a motion last Thursday asking that the brothers hate 50 years to life.
If it is granted, it could allow the brothers to immediately qualify for conditional release, Gascón said because they were younger than 26 when they committed the crimes. Lyle Menendez was 21 and Erik Menendez was 18 at the time of the murders.
A judge of the Supreme Court will decide whether they should be audible. A hearing is planned for December 11 in the resort of resort.
Lawyers for the brothers argued in Clementina requests that they were both sexually abused by their father who became at a young age. Lyle Menendez was molested by his father until he was 8 years old, and Erik Menendez was sexually abused from 6 years to the murders, their lawyers wrote.
Both have worked to rehabilitate themselves and both obtained diplomas, and they have made programs to help other prisoners, wrote their lawyers in the letters. Those factors and their ages – Lyle Mendez is 56 and Erik Menendez is 53 – make every ‘an exemplary candidate for Clementie’, the lawyers wrote.
The brothers shot their parents several times with Mossberg Shotguns while they were on the couch to watch television on August 20, 1989.
They were tried for the first time in 1993, and juices stuck, resulting in Mistrials. They were then returned and convicted of murder in the first degree in 1996.
At the time, officers of justice argued that the brothers were motivated by greed and said they killed their parents to honor a fortune and went on an expenditure after the murders.
Correction (October 30, 2024, 10:05 am et): An earlier version of this article has given up the age of Erik Menendez incorrectly. He is 53, not 54.