Family of Menendez brothers hopeful upset is imminent after DA calls press conference

Relatives of the notorious Menendez brothers, who are serving life sentences for killing their millionaire parents, are hopeful that the siblings will be re-sentenced at a highly anticipated press conference on Wednesday, a report said.

Several relatives of Eric and Lyle Menendez have been invited by Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon to attend the event at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center courthouse and are hoping for a significant favorable update on the infamous case, Vanity Fair reported Monday, citing a source with knowledge of the situation.

The extended family hopes the DA will eventually recommend that Eric, 53, and Lyle, 53, be re-sentenced after spending more than three decades behind bars for killing parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, the outlet said. .

The potential update comes just weeks after Gascon announced that his office is reviewing new evidence of alleged molestation in the case to determine whether the brothers should be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The siblings have long claimed they killed their parents in self-defense after enduring a lifetime of physical, emotional and sexual abuse from them.

Lyle, who was 21 at the time, and Eric, then 18, insisted they carried out the fatal double shooting in order to avoid revealing their former RCA records executive father's long-term sexual abuse allegations that their parents were going to kill them. younger brother

Prosecutors argued at the time that there was no evidence of molestation and argued that the boys were after their parents' multimillion-dollar estate.

The couple was eventually convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The brothers filed a petition to review their case last year after a Peacock docuseries, “Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed,” aired alleging that their father sexually assaulted a former underage member of the 1980s boy band Menudo.

Lyle and Eric argued that the new evidence lends credibility to their claims that their father and mother sexually abused them as young children.

In announcing the review earlier this month, the district attorney said there was no question the brothers committed the murders but that his office would review the evidence and decide whether an indictment should be issued.

According to one of their lawyers, Mark Geragos, the brothers' families believed from the start that they should have been charged with murder instead of murder.

The case has gained renewed attention in recent weeks after Netflix began streaming a separate true-crime drama, “Monsters: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story.”