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Judge Judy told us she had nothing nice to say about the brothers.

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00:00As we speak right now, we have learned that the

00:05Deputy District Attorney in L.A. County

00:08and the lawyers for the Menendez brothers

00:11are in chambers with the judge

00:14who is gonna hear the case on whether they get out or not.

00:18And they are, we're told, gonna set a date for a hearing.

00:23And that hearing is gonna be the first time

00:26that Judge Jessup can actually hear the arguments

00:30about whether or not to reduce their sentence.

00:34If he reduces the sentence,

00:35then it just goes to the parole board.

00:37That could take another six months.

00:38But the judge could, because I know Garagos,

00:42we had him on the show yesterday,

00:44Garagos, Mark Garagos, who is the Menendez brothers' lawyer,

00:47he said something that we've already reported,

00:50that he is gonna go into court and say,

00:51look, what we really want is you to reduce

00:54the conviction from murder to manslaughter.

00:56If that happens, the dates that the judge sets,

01:01that could be the date the Menendez brothers

01:03become free men, if it goes their way.

01:05Because the moment the judge says

01:07the conviction is changed,

01:09they'll observe three times the maximum time

01:12for manslaughter, and the gates swing open.

01:15So we're gonna let you know later in the show

01:16if we can get that particular date.

01:19But for now, there are a lot of people weighing in.

01:22We have another judge weighing in.

01:25Well, Judge Jessic is actually meeting with the attorneys.

01:27Judge Judy has an opinion, as you would imagine.

01:30What a shock.

01:31She tends to have opinions.

01:32What a shock.

01:33And she has one about this case,

01:35the case that everyone is waiting to see how it turns out.

01:39Yes, Judy has a very clear opinion

01:42about how she would like to see it turn out.

01:44This is what she said to us yesterday in Beverly Hills.

01:46As a judge, a lot of people are asking

01:49that the Menendez brothers be freed.

01:51I have absolutely nothing to say,

01:55nothing good to say about the Menendez brothers being free.

01:58Well, okay, not hard to read between the lines.

02:00We attempted some follow-up.

02:02She said, nope.

02:03Well, you know what she actually said?

02:05She told the government, you get one question,

02:07and then that was it. And that was yours.

02:09But it's clear what she's saying is

02:11she doesn't want them free.

02:13Now, what's interesting about that

02:14is Judge Judy, before she became a TV judge,

02:17for two decades, she was a family law judge,

02:21and she heard a lot about fractured families

02:24during the course of her tenure.

02:26And so that's what this is, too.

02:29It is a fractured family that we're talking about.

02:31It's a little more complicated than just a fractured family.

02:34Yeah, I think calling this a fractured family

02:37is a little bit of an understatement, Harvey.

02:38This is a premeditated murder case

02:40where two young boys contemplated the murder

02:43of their parents.

02:45And also a molestation, alleged molestations.

02:47And not just molestation,

02:50but there was a lot of testimony in the two trials

02:53about Jose Menendez being incredibly abusive to the kids

02:58and Kitty being a participant in some ways.

03:01So to that point, more than just a fractured family.

03:05But I would imagine that Judy knows

03:07all of those facts also, right?

03:10And she still feels that they should not go free.

03:12Now, people are split on this.

03:14Yeah, people are split, but she is not mincing words here.

03:17And she is a sensible juror.

03:18She's seen a lot of fractured families.

03:19As you said, she was a family law lawyer.

03:21But she wasn't a criminal.

03:22She wasn't a judge in criminal court.

03:24Of course not.

03:25She was not a criminal judge in any way,

03:26but she saw a lot of fractured families.

03:28And I think she thinks it's a waste of time

03:29to revisit this case.

03:30It seems to be politically motivated by George Gascon.

03:32There's just a lot that seems stinky

03:34about looking at the Menendez brothers once again.

03:37But the one thing you gotta know is

03:39that everybody is talking about this is the DA

03:41trying to save his position as DA

03:44because the election's coming up Tuesday.

03:45I said it last week.

03:46I don't know that it's going to save him.

03:48But if he's thinking that, it could be the exact opposite.

03:51It could be the opposite, and maybe he knows

03:53he's gonna lose and he's just doing it anyway.

03:55But the reality is that the Menendez brothers' lawyers

03:59have been trying for 18 months to make this happen.

04:04So it's not like it's a new thing.

04:06The DA jumped on the bandwagon.

04:07The DA moved it up so that it would become

04:11a public thing before the election.

04:13And the Ryan Murphy miniseries has certainly

04:16brought it back into the public fold.

04:17That should not be relevant.

04:19It should not, but it is.

04:21And even George Gascon said as much.

04:23It's been brought back into the limelight.

04:24It's alarming.

04:25It is alarming because the public should not,

04:30DAs should not take their cue from how the public feels

04:34when it comes to sentencing, trying people.

04:38Then it becomes like a public lynch mob.

04:40And that's what's going on all over the country.

04:43DAs are running for election based on

04:45who they're gonna prosecute.

04:47That shouldn't be the case.

04:48DAs shouldn't be looking at TV shows and saying,

04:51oh, well, there's a lot of public interest in it.

04:53They should be basing it on the case.

04:55I have a real problem with this.

04:58You and I are in 100% agreement on this,

05:00but it is starting to look like a fait accompli

05:01because even Governor Newsom said

05:04there are two avenues where he can look at it.

05:06They filed clemency petitions with him.

05:07He can also look at the parole board's recommendation,

05:10and he seems favorably inclined.

05:11So I do think this might happen.

05:13This is Barb from Connecticut,

05:15and I don't agree with Judge Judy.

05:17I think that the Menendez brothers should be freed.

05:20I'm really curious to know more about why she feels that way

05:24because I do love and respect Judge Judy.

05:27And I think she looked great there in that outfit,

05:30but I don't know why.

05:33Sidebar, sidebar.

05:34I don't know why she feels that way,

05:37and I wish she would have elaborated a lot more.

05:39Oh, I do.

05:40She is big into accountability,

05:43and look, I know her,

05:46and I'm just gonna guess this,

05:48that the reloading of the gun and going back to Kitty.

05:52It's premeditation to the next level.

05:53It does, and I have a feeling that is impactful to Judy,

05:58and also that there are plenty of cases

06:00where kids are in real dire circumstances,

06:03and they don't resort to that,

06:04and I think that's probably where her head is on this.

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