Menendez family discusses active review of murder conviction [Video]

LOS ANGELES (KGTV) — More than a dozen family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez spoke Wednesday afternoon regarding the LA District Attorney’s decision to review new evidence in their murder case. They hope this will either lead to a new trial or resentencing and, ultimately, the brothers’ freedom.

Lyle and Erik have served 35 years in prison for killing their parents Jose and Mary Louise, or “Kitty,” in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. Lyle was 21 at the time, while Erik was 18. They were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1996.

Watch the full press conference below:

Erik, now 53, has been incarcerated in the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego since 2013. Lyle, now 56, joined his brother in 2018.

The brothers claim years of repeated sexual assaults from their father had them fearing for their lives and ultimately drove them to commit the murders.

Kitty’s sister spoke at the news conference.

“I never …