Menendez Brothers Won’t Be Home For Holidays, Resentencing Hearing Delayed

Eric and Lyle Menendez It looks like he won’t be released from prison before the holidays… as his scheduled retrial hearing has been postponed.

menendez brothers They attended a status hearing in Van Nuys on Monday from a San Diego-area prison where they are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. They tried to participate via video, but had some technical issues, so they had to listen over the phone…but never spoke.

Still, it was the first time they had appeared in court in decades.

judge Michael V. Jesic Considered a habeas corpus motion filed last year by Eric and Lyle’s attorneys…the brothers say their father sexually abused them before the murders, two new pieces of evidence not introduced during the trial. They claim it supports their claims.

Among the evidence: a letter Eric sent to his cousin in 1988 — about eight months before the brothers killed their parents with a shotgun — that appears to support the abuse claims — and a letter from a former Menudo member. affidavit Roy RossellóThose who claim that Jose raped him.

The Menendez brothers’ lawyers mark geragosseveral witnesses were called to testify… The two aunts said the brothers should go home as soon as possible.

The judge also heard the outgoing Los Angeles County district’s response. george gascónwho I want to hate my brothers and make them eligible for parole.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that Eric and Lyle were motivated by greed when they killed their parents…but the brothers claimed it was self-defense after years of sexual abuse in their home. …a claim that prosecutors claim is supported by this new evidence.

Eric and Lyle have been in prison for more than 30 years, but now they have several paths to freedom…outraged parole, pardon, or change their conviction to manslaughter and release them based on time served. Sometimes it is done.