Following a Los Angeles County Judge, resontent Erik and Lyle Menéndez for a term of 50 years of life, Governor Gavin Newsom has withdrawn his request for a clemency investigation, turning an audience scheduled in June before the Lady Liberty Board in an opportunity for the brothers to be granted an early release.
The measure optimizes the potential path towards freedom for the brothers who have turned more than 35 years in prison since he was sentenced for killing his parents with shotguns in 1989.
“We are grateful to Judge Jesus for his courage and faithfulness to the Law. We hope that the governor writes the final chapter in the liberation of the brothers,” said his lawyer, Mark Geragos.
On Tuesday, the judge of the Superior Court of County of the, Michael Jesus, modified the original judgment of the brothers without probation to 50 years of life, why according to the State Youth Criminal Law, it makes the brothers immediately harmful.
The probation Board informed Wednesday to the legal representatives that the governor no longer conducted clemency investigations due to the decision to change the sentences of the brothers.
“Since the ruling makes them immediately eligible for the consideration of probation as youth criminals, it is the intention of the Board to convert the clemency hearings of June 13, 2025 into hearings of initial probation of initial probation,” Scott Wyckoff, executive.
In the hearings, a commissioner panel could consider the appropriate brothers for probation, but that would not be the end of the process. It would follow a 90 -day review period, and Newsom could block your release, although it is not clear if that would happen given your retirement application on Wednesday accelerates its path to freedom.
At a probation hearing, the brothers will have to take responsibility for their crimes and argue the commissioners that they are unlikely to go back. They made Jesus statements to Jesus through a food for the Chamber from the prison on Tuesday.
“My actions were criminal, selfish, cruel and cowardly,” said Erik Menéndez. “I have no excuse, there is no justification for what I did … I take a complete answer for my crimes.”
Lyle also said that “he did not apologize” for knocking down his mother and his father with shotgun explosions, and apologized to the almost two boxes of relationships that yours fighting for their release.
“I am very sorry for each and every one of you,” Lyle told the Court on Tuesday. “I make you a song and forced you to focus on the public humiliation you never asked.”
At Tuesday’s audience, Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman argued that the brothers had not been able to show an adequate “vision” about their crimes and had not atone for lies they told in the last 30 years about the nature of the murders, but Jesus ruled out those arguments as irrelevant. Prosecutors had to prove that the brothers presented an unreasonable risk for the public, according to Jesus, who said they did not.
