California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set a date for the ultimate parole listening to for Lyle and Erik Menendez — emphasizing that his workplace might select to let the killer duo out of jail even when the courtroom decides to maintain them in jail.
“On June 13th, both Lyle and Erik Mendez, independently, will have their final hearing. A report will then be submitted to me on the 13th of June for consideration,” the governor stated Tuesday on his podcast “This is Gavin Newsom.”
If the state parole board decides that the brothers are match to re-enter society, the governor might set them free on parole whatever the determination by Los Angeles County Superior Court docket.
The announcement got here the day after LA District Legal professional Nathan Hochman urged the courtroom to not re-sentence the brothers for the 1989 execution of their rich mother and father of their Beverly Hills mansion.
Newsom acknowledged that Hochman’s announcement was “significant,” however he stated it has no bearing on whether or not he’ll grant the brothers clemency after greater than 30 years behind bars.
“It doesn’t fundamentally change the facts as it relates to the independent investigation in my office, the board of parole hearings, or fundamentally change or alter the process that’s underway with the resentencing,” Newsom stated.
The June 13 listening to would be the ultimate section of a “risk assessment” performed with assistance from public security specialists and psychologists to find out if the brothers are match to re-enter society.
The evaluation will name on public security specialists and forensic psychologists to assist decide whether or not or not the brothers needs to be set free greater than thirty years after gunning down their mother and father in the lounge of their Malibu mansion.
The announcement gives a glimmer of hope for the brothers, whose path to freedom has been quickly shrinking since Hochman reversed the soft-on-crime insurance policies of his predecessor George Gascón, who had advisable that the courtroom change their sentences from life in jail with out parole to them to 50 years to life.
With the greater than three many years served, Gascón’s re-sentencing request would’ve made them instantly eligible for parole.
Lyle and Erik Menendez, 57 and 54, have lengthy claimed that they pumped their mother and father Jose and Kitty filled with birdshot on an August night time 35 years in the past as a result of they have been fearful their abusive father would possibly kill them.
Their case just lately grew to become a trigger celebre among the many true crime set in current months after a Netflix documentary and new proof that they have been sexually abused by their father.
On Monday, Hochman detailed 16 cases through which the brothers had lied about killing their mother and father, starting with the primary 911 name.
