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LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they are going to ask a court docket Friday to resentence Lyle and Erik Menendez, who had been convicted of killing their dad and mom in 1989 and are serving life with out the potential of parole.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has mentioned there’s little doubt the brothers killed their dad and mom in Beverly Hills, and the pair admitted to the murders. But the brothers have argued that they dedicated the crimes in self-defense after years of abuse by their father and now Gascón
Gascón mentioned reexamining the case was applicable given a renewed understanding of and empathy for sexual abuse victims.
The brothers had been convicted and sentenced in 1996.
The case has been again within the headlines following a docuseries and a true-crime drama launched by Netflix.
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Here’s a take a look at the timeline of the case:
August 1989
Jose Menendez, an govt at RCA Records in Los Angeles, and his spouse Kitty Menendez, are shot and killed of their Beverly Hills mansion.
March 1990
Lyle Menendez, then 21, is arrested. Eighteen-year-old Erik Menendez turns himself in a couple of days later. They are accused of first-degree homicide.
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July 1993
The Menendez brothers go on trial, every with a separate jury. Prosecutors argued that they killed their dad and mom for monetary achieve. The brothers’ attorneys do not dispute the pair killed their dad and mom, however argued that they acted out of self-defense after years of emotional and sexual abuse by their father.
January 1994
Both juries impasse.
October 1995
The brothers’ retrial begins, this time with a single jury. Much of the protection proof about alleged sexual abuse is excluded in the course of the second trial.
March 1996
Jurors convict each brothers of first-degree homicide.
July 1996
The brothers are sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole.
May 2023
Attorneys for the Menendez brothers ask the court docket to rethink the conviction and sentence in mild of recent proof from a former member of the boy band Menudo, who mentioned he was raped by Jose Menendez when he was 14. In addition, they submit a letter that Erik wrote about his father’s abuse previous to the killings.
September 2024
Netflix releases the crime drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, a nine-episode sequence in regards to the killings.
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Oct. 4, 2024
Gascón says his workplace is reviewing new proof within the case.
Oct. 16, 2024
Multiple generations of members of the family of the Menendez brothers maintain a information convention pleading for his or her launch from jail. The family members say the jurors who sentenced them to life with out parole in 1996 had been a part of a society that was not prepared to listen to that boys may very well be raped.
Oct. 24, 2024
Prosecutors say they are going to petition the court docket to resentence the brothers, and that it might result in their launch.
