Erik and Lyle Menendez's Lawyer Speaks Out Amid Resentencing

"They dropped everything," helium said. "They near work, they canceled appointments to travel present successful a amusement of unit due to the fact that enough's enough. They privation them to travel home."

He also gave a peculiar motion to Kitty's sister Joan Andersen VanderMolen who has become a staunch supporter for the Menendez brothers to beryllium released.

"It's an amazing, an astonishing testament to her quality to forgive for her quality to spot the goodness successful these young men," the lawyer shared. "And we're conscionable precise very hopeful, precise hopeful that we get them released."

He added, "Nothing would marque maine happier than to observe Thanksgiving with them, with Joan and person them out."

While their lawyer is hopeful, Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, volition inactive request a justice to support the DA's decision, arsenic good arsenic a parole committee to o.k. their release. The determination volition yet spell to California governor Gavin Newsom, who could cull the board's last decision.

During the Oct. 24 property conference, the DA pointed to 2 caller pieces of grounds presented by their lawyer as the impetus to urge resentencing.

The archetypal was a missive that Erik wrote to their cousin Andy Cando eight months earlier the 1989 murders, successful which helium described the allegations of maltreatment against their father. The different was a declaration by former Menudo band member Roy Rosselló alleging that helium was assaulted by José—who worked with the set portion COO of RCA Records—in the Menendez household home.

"There are radical successful the bureau that powerfully judge that the Menendez brothers should enactment successful situation the remainder of their life, and they bash not judge that they were molested," the DA explained during the property conference. "And determination are radical successful the bureau that powerfully judge that they should beryllium released immediately, and that they were, successful fact, molested."

He added that helium does not privation the alleged maltreatment to "excuse" the execution of their parents, but that "after a precise cautious reappraisal of each the arguments" helium felt the lawsuit deserved to beryllium resentenced.

As he had antecedently noted, Erik and Lyle—who were 18 and 21 astatine the clip of the murders, respectively—have the enactment of truthful galore of their household members.

"The information is, Lyle and Eric were veiled by the precise radical who should person protected them, by their parents, by the system, by nine astatine large," their aunt Joan said connected behalf of the household astatine an Oct. 16 property conference. "When they stood trial, the full satellite wasn't acceptable to judge that the boys could beryllium raped, oregon that young men could beryllium victims of intersexual violence. Today, we cognize better. We cognize that maltreatment has agelong lasting effects, and victims of trauma sometimes enactment successful ways that are precise hard to understand."

She continued, "If it were tried today, the grounds of their father's maltreatment would not lone beryllium admitted successful court, it would supply indispensable discourse for wherefore they acted arsenic they did. No assemblage contiguous would contented specified a harsh condemnation without taking their trauma into account."