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  1. Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than three decades behind bars for murdering their parents in the family's luxury Beverly Hills home, could soon walk free after a judge reduced their life sentences. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/ #worldnews #crimelegal #menendezbrothers #murder #us

  2. Menendez Brothers Demand Los Angeles D.A. Recuse Himself From Their Case Due to ‘Shenanigans’ and ‘Next Level Gaslighting’
    #Variety #News #Menendezbrothers

    variety.com/2025/tv/news/menen

  3. Ex-Member of Menudo Says He Was Raped by Father of the Menendez Brothers
    The allegation, made in a forthcoming docuseries, resembles the claims of abuse by the brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents. By Matt Stevens #nytimes

    nytimes.com/2023/04/18/arts/te #menudo #menendez #menendezbrothers

  4. Watching Monsters, anyone else watching this.. watched episode 5 "The Hurt man" Cooper Koch does an amazing job; was that one single shot through the entire episode? The camera fixed on "Erik Menendez" ..(?) That was so well done. Amazing.

    #monsters #netflix #cooperkoch #menendezbrothers

  5. LA DA to request resentencing for #MenendezBrothers, a move that may help free them after decades in prison
    
George Gascón, the county’s top prosecutor, announced his decision at a news conference Thursday. Erik & Lyle #Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for killing their parents, but interest in their case was recently revived by a Netflix series & a push by their family to free them.

    #law
    washingtonpost.com/nation/2024

  6. @CStamp @peachfront

    The basic argument is regarding sentencing. The judge / jury would have weighed the sexual abuse & the mother’s abuse of neglect [see pic for definition] into their sentence. If the evidence had been presented a life sentence may not have been issued. They’ve been in prison 35 years, so the argument is for time served.

    #law #MenendezBrothers

  7. A hearing for the habeas petition is set for Nov. 29 in Los Angeles. If the petition is granted, Geragos said, the brothers’ conviction could be overturned following a new trial. That is separate from the request for a resentencing Gascón is set to announce Thursday.

    …If Gascón recommends resentencing, it will be up to a judge to decide whether the Menendez brothers be released, receive a lesser sentence or get a new trial.

    #law #MenendezBrothers

  8. Then there was the allegation that José Menendez raped Roy Rosselló — a former member of the iconic 1980s boy band Menudo, which was known as the “Hispanic Beatles.”
    
Menendez attorney Mark Geragos said Rosselló alleges that, as a teen, he was drugged & raped by the Menendez patriarch — then the head of RCA Records, which had a recording deal w/Menudo.

    #law #MenendezBrothers

  9. …new evidence in the case also surfaced.
One of the items was a letter Erik Menendez wrote to a cousin in 1988, a year before the killings, that came to light in 2023 as the siblings’ attys were petitioning the court to release the brothers.
    
“It’s still happening Andy but it’s worse for me now,” Menendez wrote to his cousin, Andy Cano, acc/to the petition. “…I never know when it’s going to happen & it’s driving me crazy. Every night I stay up thinking he might come in.”

    #law #MenendezBrothers

  10. Prosecutors said the pair killed their parents for money. They received a portion of their family’s $14 million estate, quickly blowing $700,000 in about 6 months on real estate, luxury items & tennis lessons.

    But the brothers have long said the 1989 shotgun killings were the result of years of sexual, physical & emotional #abuse by their father & indifference from their mother. Evidence of the abuse was barred from being discussed in their 1996 trial.

    #law #MenendezBrothers