The brothers Lyle and Erik van Mendez serve lifelong prisoners in 1989 for the murders dedicated to their parents Kitty and Jose Mendez in the family in Beverly Hills in California in California. Now the two could be released at probation.
In the case of a refurbishment of the case to the application for mitigation, a judge in California reduced the punishment of the two brothers to live to life on Tuesday to 50 years. With this, Lyle and Erik – in the crime that they were 19 and 21 years old – question a detention.
Emotional hearing
The judgment of judge Michael Jesic, who qualifies the brothers for a suspended punishment, was followed after an emotional hearing in Los Angeles. The brothers took over the full responsibility for the crime of the time. “I think they have done enough in the last 35 years to get the chance to be released one day,” said Judge Michael Jesic.
The case of the Menendez brothers was brought into the focus of the public last year by a series of the Netflix streaming service.
For 30 years behind bars
The judgment means that the brothers, who have spent more than 30 years behind bars, can be released on probation next month. However, a probation committee decides on this.
During the trial, the prosecutors had argued that the brothers had killed their parents to get $ 14 million faster (according to today’s value of 12.3 million euros). Supporters, on the other hand, said that the brothers had acted in self -defense after they had been sexually and physically abused for years by their tyrannical father under the tolerance of the mother.
Source: Krone
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