Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon announced when his office would decide whether or not they would consider a re-sentencing in Erik and Lyle Menendez ’s case after the emergence of new evidence. The decision, Gascon said on Tuesday, will come “by the end of the week.”
Erik and Lyle were sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. They have never denied committing the crime in court. Rather, at their first trial, their attorney argued that they killed their parents in self defense out of fear that their parents would kill them if they disclosed years of alleged sexual abuse by their father.
More than three decades later, on Oct. 16, the L.A. District Attorney’s office revealed they were reevaluating the brothers’ infamous parricide, following a legal filing that revealed new alleged details of abuse by José…