Menendez Brothers Resentencing Supported By LA DA; George Gascón Sets Press Conference For This Afternoon On Ryan Murphy Spotlighted Case

EXCLUSIVE: Los Angles County District Attorney George Gascón said this week he would have a decision on the legal fate of the long incarcerated  Menendez Brothers, and he is making it public today.

The reelection campaigning DA will announce his support for a resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez for the shotgun murder of their parents in 1989, Deadline has learned. A day ahead of schedule, the DA’s office just revealed that Gascón will give a press conference Thursday “regarding the potential resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez.”

Having been on a media tour of late over weighing newer evidence of the sexual abuse the brothers allegedly suffered from their father, music executive Jose Menendez, Gascón is expect to ask for Erik, 55, and Lyle, 56 to get out of prison in the next few months, sources tell me. However, Gascón could still back away from that plan in the next few hours due to sharp divisions in his office, individuals close to events caution of the fickle prosecutor.

Sentencing to life without parole in their second trial in 1996, the siblings’ case will now need to go before a judge to become official. A November 26 hearing on the case has been on the calendar for a few weeks.

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