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Menendez Brothers’ Case: Prosecutors Recommend Resentencing For 1989 Murders
Kim Kardashian is showing her enactment for Erik and Lyle Menendez arsenic they inch person to freedom.
After Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón shared his plans to urge that the 1996 beingness without parole sentences the brothers received for sidesplitting their parents José Menendez and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez in 1989 beryllium replaced with a sentence of 50 years to beingness with anticipation for parole, the SKIMS laminitis expressed her gratitude.
"The Menendez brothers were granted a 2nd accidental astatine beingness and volition aftermath up time yet eligible for a parole hearing," Kim, a longtime societal justness betterment advocate, wrote connected her Instagram Stories pursuing the Oct. 24 property conference. "Thank you, George Gascón, for revisiting the Menendez brothers' lawsuit and righting a important wrong."
Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 erstwhile they fatally changeable José and Kitty. During their 1993 trial—where a assemblage was yet deadlocked starring to a 1995 proceedings wherever they were convicted—the brothers alleged their parents had physically, emotionally and sexually abused them for years and their ineligible squad had argued they killed successful self-defense. (In the second trial, the justice excluded overmuch of the grounds relating to the intersexual abuse.)
The lawsuit is the absorption of the newest installment of Ryan Murphy's Netflix bid Monsters, which began streaming past period and brought the brothers' communicative backmost to nationalist statement decades aft their televised trial.
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"The media's focus, particularly connected the heels of Ryan Murphy's TV show, helped exposure the maltreatment and injustices successful their case," Kim wrote. "Society's knowing of kid maltreatment has evolved, and societal media empowers america to question the systems successful place. This lawsuit highlights the value of challenging decisions and seeking truth, adjacent erstwhile guilt is not successful question."
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At the property conference, the D.A. said that portion determination was "no excuse for murder," helium believed "that the brothers were subjected to a tremendous magnitude of dysfunction successful the location and molestation."
"I deliberation that often for taste reasons, we don't judge victims of intersexual assault, whether they're women oregon whether they're men," helium added. "It's salient to recognize that our ain implicit and sometimes explicit bias astir intersexual maltreatment and intersexual assaults often leads america to terrible injustice successful our community."
If a justice follows Gascón's resentencing recommendation, Lyle, 56, and Erik, 53, would beryllium eligible for parole instantly due to the fact that they were nether 26 astatine the clip of their parents' killings.
In September, Kim met the Menendez brothers astatine their San Diego prison—where she was joined by Monsters star Cooper Koch, who played Erik—and subsequently wrote successful an op-ed that she hoped their beingness sentences beryllium reconsidered.
"We beryllium it to those small boys who mislaid their childhoods," she wrote successful the NBC News essay, "who ne'er had a accidental to beryllium heard, helped oregon saved."
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