A Los Angeles judge will listen to arguments for and against reducing the sentences of Killer Infames Lyle and Erik Menéndez On Thursday, after family members criticized prosecutors for showing photos of the crime scene in the crime, the old aunt of the brothers in the hospital say well.
A audience scheduled for Thursday to Friday is scheduled to determine whether or not the brothers can leave or not prison on probation almost 35 years after killing their rich parents at their home in Beverly Hills.
The lawyer of the Mark Geragos brothers argues that they are completely rehabilitated and have paid their debt to society, but Nathan Hochman district prosecutor insists that Erik and Lyle have not shown remorse for the murders and rejects their story about killing José and Kitty Menéndez in self -defense in 1989.
Meanwhile, tensions between prosecutors and the members of the brothers’ family reached a peak.
On Monday, the family lawyer presented a motion so that the court publicly admonishes the district prosecutor for showing horrible photos of the mutilated body of José.
A district attached prosecutor showed the images at another hearing last Friday warning family members in the gallery, and say shock Almost killed José Menéndez’s 85 -year -old sister, Terry Baralt.
The old woman, who traveled New Jersey to Los Angeles to support her nephews, was found without responding on Sunday morning and hastened the hospital in critical condition.
“In the open court, and without any prior warning, prosecutors showed an unworthy graphic image of the lifeless body of José Menéndez, an act that the members of the retraumatized family who attended and led to the hospitalization of the 85 -year -old sister of José, Terry Baralt, who is now in critical state,” said Erik’s justice and Lle Coalition in a statement.
“This was just cruel. It was a clear violation of our rights under Marsy’s law,” added the coalition, invoking a California law that gives the victims’ relatives the right to equity, respect and dignity.
The District Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement apologizing for not giving a previous warning before showing the photos, but pointed out that bloody visual aid has been a fixed element of the income so far, which implies that anyone who chooses to see those procedures.
“We have repeatedly described in public documents the vicious and premeditated conduct of the Meséndez brothers, 1 times the back of the father’s head, in his mother’s face, and then,” “Bodough,” he said.
The restart of the Court is one of the two paths towards the freedom for Erik and Lyle, who were 18 and 21 years old, respectively, when they pumpled shotgun rounds to their mother and a rich manic father of music and then at an expense of $ 15 million $ 15.
The brothers were declared guilty of first degree murder after two high -profile judgments in the 90s, but a 2024 Netflix documentary He brought his case back to the attention center.
The same year, then the District Prosecutor George Gascón asked the Court to reduce his sentence, citing new evidence that supported the claim of the brothers that his father had abused them sexual for years and that both.
But after the current Da Nathan Hochman unleashed Gascón in November, his office dismissed the request for resentment as a desperate attempt of Gascón to revive his failed campaign and dismissed the narrative of Defense of Defense of the Icedeezes. “
