The long-awaited hearing hearing on Tuesday was set to determine if two brothers who killed their rich parents in their healing top of Beverly Hills could be free from prison after three decades.
After multiple delays, the judge will begin to hear two days of arguments and for both Erik and Lyle Menendesis to obtain fewer sentences – which could ultimately lead to their paronial edition.
Prosecutors claimed that the brothers carefully planned the 1989 murders. Years to access the richness of their parents, they still did not take responsibility and should not be released. The brothers said they had acted from self-defense after years of abuse.
The infamous case, which encouraged books, documentary films and drama, still shared America.
During the two-day hearing, there will be televised or electricity, the judge is expected to hear the witness testify and eventually determine whether the brothers are sentenced to life, without the possibility of conditional.
It is expected that the testimony of various people, including members of the Menendez family and potentially those involved in the original case.
Eric and Lyle can even stop the stand, although such a move would be opened on examining the prosecutor who oppose their release. The BBC asked if he would testify or who else could be invited to testify.
On the episode of his podcast, their lawyer Mark Geragos said he did not decide whether to call them at the stand.
“Now I know I’m going to put family members on the stand,” Mr. Geragos said. “I know right now, I’ll put the correction officers on the stand. I know right now I can put scientists in behavior at the stand.”
The District Prosecutorial Office did not say who plans to invite to testify.
The hearing will not be a retrial, and the guilt of the brothers will not be questioned.
Instead, most of the focus is likely to be on what they did for 30 years in prison and whether they rehabilitated.
During their trials, prosecutors painted them as entitled and eager to access $ 24 million ($ 10.7 million) wealth.
They claimed that the duo was metodically planned to buy shotguns and opening a fire on their parents 13 times as a couple watched TV – before he moved to gambling, parties and shopping.
The brothers finally recognized in the murder, but they claimed that they acted from self-defense after years of emotional, physical and sexual abuse by their Father Jose, Executive Director for Recording High Power and Recording.
The trial of the 1993 brothers was one of the first cases of high murders that will be presented live on television, grasping the audience in the US and globally.
Their first trial ended in the State, but in 1996. Brothers were convicted of murdering the first degree in trial. Many of their sexual abuse requirements are not permitted as part of the proceedings.
The hearing comes after the Netflix drama turned off the housing back into the reflector, and support for the resentment of them, stems from the previous District Lawyer Los Angeles George Gascó.
His replacement, Nathan Hochman, fiercely opposed her brothers efforts to release and claim that they did not “show the truth,” and instead they obeyed in the character “Lies”.
2025-05-13 09:13:00
