Judge Mathis Says Menendez Brothers Deserve Their Freedom

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Judge Mathis says Erik and Lyle Menendez deserve to be free men ... telling us new evidence they were allegedly molested by the father they killed totally changes things.

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00:00I know right now a lot of people are talking about the Menendez brothers and possibly about

00:07them getting out December 11th, that's a possibility.

00:10I mean, how do you feel as a judge, you know, if this decision was to happen, do they deserve

00:15to get out?

00:16I know the internet is kind of like, I don't know, you know?

00:20Absolutely they should.

00:21I think what has been brought as new evidence, which is what judges should determine when

00:27resentencing or providing a retrial, that new evidence creates what we call mitigating

00:32circumstances.

00:33If they were abused sexually by their parents, then that has created a mitigating circumstance.

00:39You reduce the severity of the sentence because in many ways it was an act of self-defense.

00:48Some might interpret, I don't quite interpret as that, but I do call it mitigating circumstances.

00:54Of course.

00:55So if you were a judge in this case, how would you?

00:57They'd be going home.

00:58They'd be going home.

00:59Oh, that's good to hear.

01:00Without a doubt.

01:01When they come out, do you think that Hollywood, we have space for them maybe to be stars after

01:06this, right?

01:07Like Gypsy Rose maybe.

01:08Well, I don't know if that's what, they need to get their lives together first internally

01:12and then perhaps present themselves to the world.

01:15That would be my advice to them.

01:17It's a lot that went on behind bars all these decades and they're going to have to recover

01:21from that.

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