Los Angeles County District Attorney Recommends Resentencing for Menendez Brothers

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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón will recommended that Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life sentences for the shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty more than 30 years ago, be resentenced.

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00:00I have to tell you unequivocally that we don't have a universal agreement.

00:04There are people in the office that strongly believe that the Menendez brothers should

00:13stay in prison the rest of their life.

00:16And they do not believe that they were molested.

00:20And there are people in the office that strongly believe that they should be released immediately

00:24and that they were in fact molested.

00:27I have to tell you that after a very careful review of all the arguments that were made

00:33for people on both sides of this equation, I came to a place where I believe that under

00:42the law resentencing is appropriate and I am going to recommend that to a court tomorrow.

00:50We are going to recommend to the court that the life without the possibility of parole

00:55be removed and that they would be sentenced for murder, which because there are two murders

01:02involved, that would be 50 years to life.

01:05However, because of their age under the law, since they were under 26 years of age at the

01:13time that this crime occurred, they would be eligible for parole immediately.

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