Kim Kardashian Says It's Time the Menendez Brothers Are Released From Prison

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00:00I was inspired to go to law school and really further my education to see what I can do

00:07to help.

00:08Kim Kardashian using that education to help the Menendez brothers.

00:13The reality star continuing her criminal justice reform work, advocating for Lyle and Eric

00:18Menendez's release from prison in a personal essay shared with NBC News.

00:23Saying she spent time with the siblings and quote, they are not monsters.

00:28You know where I'm at in my life now, if I can influence people in other ways and just

00:33to take something that's close to their heart and use their platform to speak up, that's

00:38what's really important to me.

00:40In her lengthy letter, Kim adds that who they are today in their 50s is not who they were

00:44at 18 and 21 years old, when they killed their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.

00:51And she believes their claims of years-long sexual abuse at the hands of their father

00:55wasn't fairly taken into account during their 1996 trials.

01:00Which is something a Los Angeles District Attorney revealed on Thursday could help grant

01:05the brothers a resentencing.

01:07Right now, they're serving life without parole.

01:09What we're here to tell you is that we have a moral and an ethical obligation to review

01:18what has been presented to us and make a determination based on the resentencing side, whether they

01:27deserve to be resentenced, they've been in prison for 35 years and they have paid back

01:32their dues to society, or whether behavior is appropriate, if there was evidence that

01:38was not presented to the court at that time, and had that evidence been presented, perhaps

01:45a jury would have come to a different conclusion.

01:47The decades-old case being thrust back in the spotlight, not only by Kim K and courts,

01:53but thanks in part due to Netflix's Monster series, which takes a look at the Menendez's

01:57dysfunctional family life, and what may have led up to the brothers' decision to kill their parents.

02:03Okay, you have to shoot first so that you don't back out.

02:06What?

02:10Okay.

02:13I love you, Eric.

02:16I love you.

02:17As for Kim, she's been vocal about her hopes to make a change when it comes to justice.

02:22I'm really motivated to get to know the law more and fight for people that deserve a second chance.

02:28Especially on her family's reality shows, even visiting prisons on camera.

02:33Thank you for having us.

02:35Nice to meet you.

02:37One of her most recent un-televised stops was to see the Menendez brothers with non-profit

02:41criminal justice advocate Scott Budnick, who gave E.T. some insight into that visit.

02:47Kim and I, we've done multiple prison visits together.

02:50We were planning to go to Donovan Prison to meet with a group of 40 guys.

02:54The Menendez brothers just happened to be two of the 40.

02:56How this woman finds time to give back, to want to inspire people, to bring hope, to

03:03visit prisons.

03:04I think the fact that we can have Kim Kardashian and her platform amplify that is incredible.

03:09And someone else who joined them, Cooper Kotch, who played Eric on the show.

03:13I had to keep trying just to change the lives that we were living and I knew at some point

03:25that I was going to be willing to do anything just to make it all stop.

03:32Kim and Cooper had just met a few days before and she invited him on the trip obviously

03:37because she knew that in this group of guys, the Menendez's would be there.

03:42And it was a very, I would say, inspiring, incredible moment to watch the two of them

03:51interact.

03:53They embraced each other.

03:54They gave each other a hug.

03:55You could tell it was just a great conversation.

03:56I wasn't privy to it, but you could tell that they were really happy talking to each other.

04:01A hearing has been set for November 29th to re-evaluate the evidence in the brothers case

04:06and if they deserve a re-sentencing.

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