The Menéndez brothers are ready to present their Cases of probation as of this Thursday. This could mark the closest moment in which they were to obtain freedom from their sentences almost 30 years ago for killing their parents.
Erik and Lyle Menéndez were sentenced in 1996 to perpetual chain for killing their parents José and Kitty In his Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, when they were 18 and 21 years old.
While his defense argued that they acted in self -defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillionaire inheritance.
Erik and Lyle Menéndez will be evaluated by the Board of Probation
The brothers became eligible for probation After May a Judge of Los Angeles reduced their life imprisonment sentences without the possibility of 50 years to perpetual chain. This approached them with this eligibility under California’s law because they were under 26 years old when they committed their crimes.
A panel of up to three hearing officials of a commissioner board will evaluate the brothers individually. Erik will have his audience on Thursday morning, followed by Lyle on Friday, through videoconference from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center in San Diego.
The Board will evaluate whether the brothers represent an “unreasonable risk of danger to society” if they are released, considering factors such as criminal history, motivation for crime and remorse signs, behavior while they were in prison and plans for the future, according to the California Prison and Rehabilitation Department.
Even if the Board grants its probation, they could spend months until the brothers are free, if they do. If the Board grants probation to each brother, the main legal advisor has 120 days to review the case.
Then the Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom He has 30 days to affirm or deny probation. The Brothers’ lawyer, Mark Geragoslooked for liberation last month for Erik Menéndez after he was hospitalized for a “serious medical condition.”
They reduced the sentence of the Menéndez brothers and could be released
The brothers Lyle and Erik Menéndez, In jailed after the brutal murder of their parents in 1989, they won a remarkable legal victory in May this year in Los Angeles. American justice modified their sentence, which opened the possibility to request probation.
An intense legal campaign and public opinion support was carried out in favor of the brothers. Thus, Judge Michael Jesus changed his sentence and from now on are eligible to probation.
The audience arose as a result of a campaign of almost two years, promoted by the success of the miniseries and the documentary of Netflix. Several relatives asked Judge Jesus to release, ensuring that The men who faced justice today were not the same who had committed crime.
Source: Ambito
