Menendez Brothers’ Fate To Be Decided By End Of The Week, LA DA George Gascón Tells CNN

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In the middle of a bleak reelection campaign, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón is clearly continuing to hope the Menendez brothers could shift his political fortunes.

Weeks after giving a press conference to say he was “reviewing” newish evidence of the sexual abuse the brothers allegedly suffered from their father and amidst public pressure to shown leniency to Eric and Lyle Menendez, DA Gascón told CNN today that the case just might be taking a dramatic turn in the next few days. “There’s actually two different camps in my office,” Gascón said to the cable newser’s Jake Tapper Tuesday afternoon. “I have a group of people, including some that were involved in the original trial, that are adamant that they should spend the rest of their life in prison and that they were not molested,” the DA added. “I have other people in the office that believe actually, that they probably were molested and that they deserve to have some relief.” “I plan to have a decision by the end of this week,” Gascón declared.

It has to be said, the DA was honest in admitting that “the public attention to this case” with the success of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix hit Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and a series of documentaries on the brothers had certainly played a role in what he is clearly thinks could be a vote winner.

In an echo of what he told People magazine earlier this week, the first term DA’s decision could see a recommendation to the courts for a resentencing for the siblings.