Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez 's case is getting a new look. One week after the brothers' lawyer Mark Geragos shared two new pieces of evidence regarding the 1989 murders of their parents José Menendez and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez , Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced he will formally recommend for them to be resentenced to add the possibility for parole. "There are people in the office that strongly believe that the Menendez brothers should stay in prison the rest of their life, and they do not believe that they were molested," Gascón shared during the Oct.
24 press conference. "And there are people in the office that strongly believe that they should be released immediately, and that they were, in fact, molested." While Gascón said he does not want their alleged abuse to "excuse" the murder of their parents, he said that "after a very careful review of all the arguments," he will submit a recommendation to the court on Oct.
25 for the Menendez brothers to be resentenced. As for the evidence that may lead to their resentencing? A letter that Erik wrote to their cousin Andy Cando eight months before the 1989 murders, in which he described the allegations of abuse. The second is a declaration by former Menudo band member Roy Roselló , who alleged that he was assaulted by José, who worked with the band while he was COO of RCA Records.
Geragos noted that had previously testified in the brothers' trial in 1993, but by the second in 1996,.
