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    Home - USA News - Menendez brothers’ murder sentences reduced making them eligible for parole
    USA News Updated:May 14, 2025

    Menendez brothers’ murder sentences reduced making them eligible for parole

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    Cliff Notes – Menendez brothers’ murder sentences reduced making them eligible for parole

    • A judge has reduced the Menendez brothers’ life sentences, making them eligible for parole after 35 years in prison.
    • The Los Angeles County prosecution argued that the brothers have not fully accepted responsibility for their actions during the 1989 murders of their parents.
    • The ruling allows the brothers to seek freedom under California’s youthful offender law, but the parole board will ultimately decide their release.

    Menendez brothers’ murder sentences reduced – making them eligible for parole

    A judge has reduced the Menendez brothers’ murder sentences – meaning they could be eligible for parole.

    Lyle, 57, and Erik, 54, received life sentences without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

    Last year, the then Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon asked a judge to change the brothers’ sentence from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life. Image:
    Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez leave a courtroom in Santa Monica in August, 1990.
    Pic: AP

    On Tuesday, Los Angeles County superior court Judge Michael Jesic did so, paving the way for the brothers’ parole and possible release.

    The ruling capped off a day-long hearing in which several relatives, a retired judge and a former fellow inmate testified in support of efforts to shorten the brothers’ sentence.

    ‘I killed my mum and dad’

    The brothers appeared at the proceedings in Los Angeles County Superior Court via video feed from prison in San Diego.

    “I killed my mum and dad. I make no excuses and also no justification,” Lyle said in a statement to the court. “The impact of my violent actions on my family … is unfathomable.”

    Erik also spoke about taking responsibility for his actions and apologising to his family.

    He said: “You did not deserve what I did to you, but you inspire me to do better.”

    The brothers did not show any apparent emotion during much of the testimony but chuckled when one of their cousins, Diane Hernandez, told the court that Erik received A+ grades in all of his classes during his most recent semester in college. Image:
    Lyle (left) and Erik Menendez in a courtroom in 1990.
    Pic: AP

    Anamaria Baralt, another cousin of the brothers, told the court they had repeatedly expressed remorse for their actions.

    “We all, on both sides of the family, believe that 35 years is enough. They are universally forgiven by our family,” she said.

    ‘They have not come clean’

    Los Angeles County prosecutors argued against the resentencing, saying the brothers have not taken complete responsibility for the crime.

    The current district attorney Nathan Hochman said he believes the brothers were not ready for resentencing because “they have not come clean” about their crimes.

    His office has also said it does not believe they were sexually abused.

    “Our position is not ‘no,’ it’s not ‘never,’ it’s ‘not yet,'” Mr Hochman said. “They have not fully accepted responsibility for all their criminal conduct.” Image:
    District attorney Nathan Hochman speaks to the media on Tuesday at the Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing.
    Pic: Reuters

    Path to freedom?

    “I’m not saying they should be released, it’s not for me to decide,” Judge Jesic said. “I do believe they’ve done enough in the past 35 years, that they should get that chance.”

    After the judge’s decision, the brothers now have a new path to freedom after decades in prison.

    They are now eligible for parole under California’s youthful offender law because they committed the crime under the age of 26.

    The state parole board must still decide whether to release them from prison.

    While this decision is made, the brothers will remain behind bars.

    During the original trial, prosecutors accused the brothers of killing their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance, although their defence team argued they acted out of self-defence after years of sexual abuse by their father.

    The brothers have maintained that their parents abused them since they were first charged with the murders.

    A Netflix series and subsequent documentary about the brothers thrust them back into the spotlight last year.

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