Menendez brothers’ family hopeful they will be sentenced after DA calls press conference

relatives of The infamous Menendez brothers, The siblings, who are serving life sentences for the murder of their millionaire parents, are expected to be re-sentenced at a much-awaited press conference on Wednesday, a report said.

Several relatives of Eric and Lyle Menendez have been invited by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón to attend the event at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center Courthouse and are hoping for a significant favorable update on the infamous case. Vanity Fair reported This information was given on Monday quoting a source aware of the situation.

The extended family is hoping the DA will eventually recommend that Eric, 53, and Lyle, 56, be paroled after spending more than three decades in prison for murdering parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. Be re-sentenced, the outlet said. ,

The potential update comes just weeks after Gascón announced that his office is reviewing new evidence of alleged tampering in the case to determine whether the brothers should continue to be sentenced to life in prison without parole .

The siblings have long claimed that they killed their parents in self-defense after suffering a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

Lyle, who was 21 at the time, and Eric, who was 18 at the time, insist that they carried out the fatal double shooting out of fear that their longtime former RCA Records executive father His parents were about to kill him to prevent disclosure of sexual abuse. youngest brother.

Prosecutors argued at the time that there was no evidence of any tampering and argued that the sons were after their parents’ multimillion-dollar fortune.

The pair were ultimately convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The brothers filed a petition for review of their case last year after it was alleged in the Peacock documentary, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed,” that their father had raped a former underage member of the 1980s boy band Menudo. Had sexually harassed a member of.

Lyle and Eric argued that the new evidence lends credibility to their claims that their father and mother sexually abused them as young children.

Announcing the review earlier this month, the district attorney said there was no doubt the brothers committed the murders, but his office would review the evidence and decide whether re-sentencing was appropriate.

According to Mark Geragos, one of their attorneys, the brothers’ family has believed from the beginning that they should have been charged with murder rather than murder.

The case has received renewed attention in recent weeks after Netflix began streaming a different true-crime drama, “Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story.”