Menendez Brothers’ Fate To Be Decided By End Of The Week, LA DA George Gascón Tells CNN

In the middle of a bleak reelection campaign, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is clearly continuing to hope the Menendez brothers could shift his political fortunes.

Weeks after giving a press conference to say he was “reviewing” newish evidence of the sexual abuse the brothers allegedly suffered from their father and amidst public pressure to shown leniency to Eric and Lyle Menendez, DA Gascón told CNN today that the case could take a dramatic turn in the next few days.

“There’s actually two different camps in my office,” Gascón said to the cable newser’s Jake Tapper Tuesday afternoon. “I have a group of people, including some that were involved in the original trial, that are adamant that they should spend the rest of their life in prison and that they were not molested,” the DA added. “I have other people in the office that believe actually, that they probably were molested and that they deserve to have some relief.”

“I plan to have a decision by the end of this week,” Gascón declared.

It has to be said, the DA was honest in admitting that “the public attention to this case” with the success of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix hit Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and a series of documentaries on the brothers had certainly played a role in what he is clearly thinks could be a vote winner.

In an echo of what he told People magazine earlier this week, the first term DA’s decision could see a recommendation to the courts for a resentencing for the siblings. If that occurs, a previously scheduled November 26 hearing may find the brothers’ life sentence reduced or even the duo freed.

After the DA election, the hearing next month has been set on the petition by brothers Erik, 55, and Lyle, 56, that they were the subject of sexual abuse by their music industry exec father, as was at least one member of the boy band Menudo. Depending on the outcome of that hearing and any self-declared “final” decision by Gascón, the brothers could be freed ASAP or go through a new trial 35 years after the shotgun murders of their parents.

Down double digits against ex-U.S. Assistant Attorney General Hochman, Gascón at his October 3 presser that his divided office believed they had “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, even though they were clearly the murderers.”

As Deadline reported on October 16, Gascón’s told ABC News’ October 17 debuting special IMPACT x Nightline: Menendez Brothers: Monsters or Victims? ““Given the totality of the circumstances, I don’t think they deserve to be in prison until they die.”

That same day last week, Gascón’s office met with around two dozen members of the brothers’ family and their lawyers after the relatives gave a press conference of their own in front of the outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center – the very building where both the brothers’ two 1990s trials took place.

Today on CNN, Tapper gave media savvy Gascón an invite “to come on the show Friday to explain to us whatever decision you make.”