{"id":14366,"date":"2024-10-04T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=14366"},"modified":"2024-10-04T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T09:29:03","slug":"the-menendez-brothers-are-getting-a-new-court-hearing-after-possible-evidence-comes-to-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=14366","title":{"rendered":"The Menendez brothers are getting a new court hearing after possible evidence comes to light"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court hearing is set for November 29<\/h2>\n

Warning: This article contains discussion of sexual assault which some readers may find distressing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Erik and Lyle Menendez are set to have a court hearing after potential new evidence related to their case was obtained by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1996,\u00a0the brothers<\/a>\u00a0were sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents, Jos\u00e9 and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills mansion on August 20, 1989.<\/p>\n

The brothers were initially tried separately, however the juries reached a deadlock consequently resulting in mistrials. They were then tried together for the second round where they were ultimately\u00a0convicted of the murder<\/a>\u00a0of their parents and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

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The brothers were convicted of first degree murder in 1996 (Los Angeles Times\/Contributor via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

During the trials, the brothers alleged that they were emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by their parents – particularly their father – and that they committed the murders out of fear for their lives.<\/p>\n

28 years after they were convicted of murdering their parents, a new court hearing has been set for Erik and Lyle for November 29, with potential new evidence regarding the alleged sexual abuse they experienced by their father coming to light.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles<\/a>\u00a0District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n made the announcement at a press conference on Thursday, sharing: “We have been given evidence.<\/p>\n

“We have been given a photocopy of a letter that allegedly was sent by one of the brothers to another family member talking about him being the victim of molestation.”<\/p>\n

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The new court hearing could lead to a retrial or resentencing (VINCE BUCCI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“We’ve also got evidence that was provided by the defense, by his lawyers, that one of the members of the Menudo band alleged that he was molested by the father,” Gasc\u00f3n continued, seemingly referring to Roy Rossell\u00f3, a former member of the Menudo boy band who alleged that he was\u00a0drugged<\/a>\u00a0and raped by Jose Menendez in the 1980s when he was a teenager.<\/p>\n

The hearing could lead to a retrial or resentencing for Erik and Lyle, however Gasc\u00f3n said no decision has been made yet.<\/p>\n

“None of this information has been confirmed,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We are not at this point ready to say that we either believe or do not believe that information.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles DA office says they’ve received new evidence (Ted Soqui\/Sygma via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“But we\u2019re here to tell you is that we have a moral and an ethical obligation to review what is being presented to us and make a determination based on a resentencing side, whether they deserve to be resentenced \u2014 even though they were clearly the murderers \u2014 because they have been in prison for years and they have paid back their dues to society.<\/p>\n

“If there was evidence that was not presented to the court at that time, and had that evidence been presented, perhaps a jury would have come to a different conclusion.”<\/p>\n

The Menendez brothers’ case has found a resurgence in popularity over the past few weeks thanks to\u00a0Netflix<\/a>‘s\u00a0Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story<\/em>\u00a0bringing it back into the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been affected by any of the issues in this article, you can contact The National Sexual Assault Hotline on 800.656.HOPE (4673), available 24\/7. Or you can chat online via<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0online.rainn.org<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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