Menendez Brothers Attorney Mark Geragos Speaks After Sentence Change

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Erik and Lyle Menendez can celebrate a new court victory -- the judge gave them a new sentence, which allows for parole ... so now, they can get out of prison after facing the state parole board.

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00:00It's a whole different world we live in now.

00:04And one of the things that I think is important is to recognize,

00:11like the legislature has done, we have evolved.

00:15This is not the 90s anymore.

00:17We have a more robust understanding of a lot of things.

00:23And I hat tip to the family and I'll let them after we answer a couple of questions,

00:29speak about what this means to them.

00:31I just know that on a day like today, that redemption is possible.

00:39And to those you saw X-rated talk today, you saw kind of the ridiculous nature of the cross

00:45examination.

00:46You can turn anything on its head.

00:48The fact is the Menendez brothers have done remarkable work.

00:53And today is a great day after 35 years.

00:58While the crime was truly horrific and remarkable, the 35 years since what they have accomplished

01:05is remarkable in with no hope.

01:07And we've said that since day one.

01:09And so with no hope.

01:13This encourages people who are incarcerated to take the make the right decisions to take

01:18the right path.

01:19So I couldn't be it's just a win win on so many levels.

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