Posted on 05/13/2025 6:13:41 PM PDT by RandFan
Erik and Lyle Menendez will have a new shot at freedom after 35 years behind bars for murdering their parents, a judge has ruled.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic reduced the brothers’ sentences from life without parole to 50 years to life.
They are now eligible for parole under California’s youthful offender law because they committed the crime under the age of 26.
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Yeah, poor little orphans. Slaughtered their mom and dad to get their hands on money early. Then slander dad is part of their defense.
No. They murdered their parents for money, their inheritance they thought.
The poor children lost their parents - the least we can do is STOP PUNISHING them, considering what they’ve been through.
(don’t laugh, people who think like that get to vote, due to the 19th Amendment)
Nope.
They have also never shown any remorse.
I dont get the wave of sympathy for them? They featured in a Netflix docu but this murder I know was brutal and particularly shocking in 1989.
Should have been executed.
Statements from others that they told prior to murders proving what happened to them was not allowed to be submitted in trials
It was brutal what the father and his associates did to those boys. Mom knew and turned a blind eye.
Free them
That’s an interesting perspective
So abuse justifies murder?
Their father was a pedophile and abused his sons as well as many other boys. The mother knew and the relatives in the family knew. The judge didn’t allow the jury to hear any of the relatives or any of what the father had been doing. It’s the relatives now who are trying to get them out of prison.
I admit I never saw the Netflix documentary but know about the case.
They brutally murdered them and then went on a spending spree before detectives caught up with them I seem to remember
No remorse ever shown either
I dont like this sympathy for them. I’ve never heard the allegations regarding the parents and it doesn’t excuse the brutality of their murder!
just my 2 cents
Life in prison sounds right..
Without XIX they would have been wormSchiff 35 years ago.
“It’s the relatives now who are trying to get them out of prison.”
35 years after the fact? New, ‘generation’ of relatives?
Explain.
So, the plea for leniency by the court because they are now orphans finally paid off. I hope the parole board is smart enough to see through the ruse.
Bull, that’s the story now... they should be in jail for killing the mother at the very least even if that was true...
I thought a parole board would want to see remorse/contrition
They have never shown any of this
It’s a disturbing case I think there is sympathy because of the netflix douc which i haven’t seen so cannot comment much.
But they might get out
NO, they should have both gotten the needle a long time ago..and NO I dont believe for one second they were molested, they are very cunning sociopaths who figured out to snow people to coming to their side
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