Los Angeles DA Says He Won’t Support Resentencing the Menendez Brothers

TIME

The district attorney of Los Angeles County said Monday that he does not support the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who admitted to killing their parents at their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

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00:00Our position is that they shouldn't get out of jail.

00:03Now, ultimately, that is a position.

00:05We bring that position to the court.

00:07The court can agree with it.

00:08The court can disagree with it or modify it in some respect.

00:12I understand that the Menendez family members want,

00:16the ones that are supporting this,

00:18want the Menendez's out today.

00:21They could go to the governor.

00:22They want to actually achieve that.

00:25Literally go to the governor Newsom today,

00:28and he could commute their sentences

00:30and release them today.

00:31The jury heard this self-defense defense way back when,

00:35and the jury rejected it.

00:37We're just basically, in many ways,

00:40following the jury's verdict from way back then,

00:44while the Menendez's have, for over 30 years,

00:47not only rejected the jury's verdict

00:49but persisted in the lie of self-defense

00:52and the related lies I've talked about.

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