A Los Angeles prosecutor said on Thursday he is asking the court to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez after they have spent 34 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, after new evidence emerged indicating they were sexually abused by their father for years.
"I believe that under the law resentencing is appropriate and I am going to recommend that to a court tomorrow," Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon told a press conference.
In their first trial, which was televised and ended in a hung jury in 1994, the brothers testified they were sexually mistreated by both parents for years and were acting in self defence, and that their father threatened to kill them if they revealed the abuse.A jury convicted them in a second trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court that was not televised, but that same jury also spared them the death penalty, opting for life in prison without parole.
"Our office has developed a more modern understanding of sexual violence since the Menendez brothers first faced prosecution," Gascon said in an Oct. 16 statement.Gascon previously said he would wait until a Nov. 26 court hearing to made a decision on the case, but he sped up the decision given the intense public interest.The district attorney told CNN on Wednesday that the case had split his office into two camps.
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