LOS ANGELES – BREAKING UPDATE: Menendez Brothers: Resentencing recommended by LA DA Gascón
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Thursday his office will recommend that a judge re-sentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life prison terms without the possibility of parole for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, in light of new evidence of alleged sexual abuse by their father.
Gascón said prosecutors will recommend that the brothers’ sentence of life without parole be rescinded, and they be re-sentenced for the pair of murder convictions, meaning a maximum of 50 years to life in prison, with the possibility of parole. He said that due to their ages at the time of the crime, they would be immediately eligible for parole.
It will be up to a judge to make the final determination. It was not immediately clear when a hearing on the matter might be held, although …