Kim Kardashian is expressing her faith in the justice system — and in Ryan Murphy — after L.A. County Dist.
Atty. George Gascón pushed the Menendez brothers one step closer to freedom. Gascón on Thursday asked a judge to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, two brothers serving life terms for the 1989 murders of their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.
The request could lead to their early release: If resentenced to 50 years to life with possibility of parole, as the D.A. advised, the brothers could be eligible for youthful-offender parole immediately, because they committed the crimes when they were younger than 26 and have already served nearly 35 years.
“The Menendez brothers were granted a second chance at life,” Kardashian said Thursday in an Instagram story praising the D.A.’s decision.
“Thank you, George Gascón, for revisiting the Menendez brothers’ case and righting a significant wrong. Your commitment to truth and fairness is commendable.” Gascón announced earlier this month that his office was reviewing the Menendez case after the brothers’ attorneys filed a habeas motion last year arguing that new evidence backed the brothers’ longstanding claim that they had been sexually abused by their father for years before the slayings.
At the time of the high-profile 1995 trial, the presiding judge strongly restricted testimony that would have supported an “abuse excuse,” clearing the way for the brothers’ 1996 conviction and sentencing to life.
