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Erik and Lyle Menendez They leaned against a multiple strategy while the brothers seek to resent their parents’ killings in California, legal experts said.
The brothers on Thursday had their first hearing in Los Angeles in Los Angeles, and will be in court on May 9, as they try to get out of prison for killing their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, 1989.
The Los Angeles lawyer told the Third Lovell for Fox News Digital to focus on the three main strategies: the rehabilitation of the brothers, the testimony of the characters of the characters and the audit of sexual abuse they claim to have endured as children.
“They have changed since the crimes happened,” Lovell said, citing the years after a condemnation, including a college degree from UC Irvina, a leading self-help class in prison and launching support programs such as Green Space and Hospice Care initiative.
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Lyle and Erik Menendez are seen as young men with covered blankets. The brothers are currently serving their parents ‘life for their parents’ murders, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez in 1996. (Ronald L. Sobble/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
“The criteria for replacement are primarily focused on behavior after condemnation to ensure that the accused have changed and rehabilitated and are not a threat to the public,” he said.
Supporting their request, it is expected that the defense will present the testimony of prison guards, supporters and family members, including those who once opposed their release.
“The fact that family members now support their edition is very powerful,” Lovell added.
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The New Jersey lawyer David Gelman abolished the recent return of defense against the use of photos with graphic crime at the place shown during the hearing last week.
“Defense is a good argument,” Gelman told Fox News Digital. “They say horrific pictures broke Marsy’s lawwhich should protect the victims’ rights. ”
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Defense claims that Terry Balalt, an 85-year-old brothers, is traumatized by watching graphic photographs of the crime scene. She was hospitalized after hearing.
“We are devastated to divide that Terry Balalt has been hospitalized and in critical state after a cruel and careless behavior of the Los Angeles District Prosecutor in Los Angeles,” said the family statement. “No physical pain has ever prevented her from being there because of her nephews. But the exhibition arranged by the De’s Office pushed her next to the edge.”
“I wouldn’t want my family to see these pictures,” Judge Michael Jesic said in court on Thursday.
Gelman said the defense audience was not the perception of the public – but a judge. He said that the arrangement of the District Prosecutor Nathan Hochman could help as “excessively or vindictively” in the decision in favor of the brothers’ offer for freedom or reduced sentence.
Lyle, left and Erik Menendez sit with defender Leslie Abramson, right, at the Beverly Hills Municipal Court during the hearing, November 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
A report on a comprehensive risk assessment (CRA), which was ordered psychological examination by the Government Office Gavin News The biggest obstacle is still the defense overcome, Gelman said.
The Newsoma Office told Fox News Digital that the risk assessment would be completed on June 13, 2025. They said their office informed Jasica of the status of CRA reports, he offered to share it with the court if he was requesting it.
“The judge has already said he will not rule until he sees the CRA reports,” Gelman said. “If this is currently an even argument, the report will cite the scale one way or another.”
The hearing about the replacement for Lyle and Erik Menendez was held in the Van Nuys yard in Los Angeles on April 17, 2025. (Derek shook for Fox News Digital)
Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and lawyer president West Coast, said the CRA report, although important, would not be a decisive factor in the judge’s discussions.
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“The risk assessment report is something that a conditional discharge committee should take into account. This is not a factor in exchange,” he explained. “The disturbance factors are Erik and Lyle -‘s age at the time of murder, being Victims of sexual abusebehave in prison and rehab. “
Focusing on these factors and refusing the risk argument to the Committee on Conditional Freedom, said Rahmani, the defense strategically guided the judge according to a decision that would conditionally travel the possibility without declaring them free men today.
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Erik Menendez, left, and his brother Lyle, in front of Beverly Hills. (Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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On Thursday, Jesic announced that it would be renewed on May 9. Erik Menendez was visibly annoyed, and his brother Lyle was out of emotion because their offer for freedom was pushed.
The brothers lawyer, Mark Geragos, filed a proposal to rejection against Hochman after the decision. The proposal of rejection requires that an individual deviates from a case because of a potential conflict of interest or bias that prevents them from working impartially.
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Menendez brothers and their supporters advocate hearing in exchange, saying that they were unjustly sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for the killing of parents in their Beverly Hills Home 1989.
Both Lyle and Erik Menendez have since been reported by claiming that their father sexually abused them, offering a a different narrative of killings but the story of their lawyers told the 1990s.
Their first trial ended in trial, when the jurors could not arrange their destiny. After the second trial in the mid-1990s, in which some of their evidence of supposedly sexual abuse They were excluded, the jurors agreed with the prosecutors that their motive was greed.
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If the judge decides to resent the Menendez brothers, then their release should be considered on the state committee for the conditional freedom.
Stepheny Price and Mike Ruiz contributed to Fox News Digital.
