Menendez Brothers Home For The Holidays? L.A. DA Backs Clemency Request By Siblings To Governor
deadline.comThanks to the recent direct intervention of the Los Angeles County District Attorney Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez are already looking at a possible resentencing and the option of parole after nearly 30 years behind bars for the 1989 murder of their parents.
Now, incumbent George Gascón is asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in and get the siblings out of state prison ASAP. “I write in strong support of Lyle Menendez’s petition for clemency submitted to your office on October 28, 2024,” wrote the incumbent DA in a short letter today to the Governor as a follow up to a request from the brothers’ attorneys “Mr.
Menendez is currently 56 years old serving his 34th year in prison at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility,” Gascón added. In a separate letter sent today, the DA said: “I write in strong support of Erik Menendez’s petition for clemency submitted to your office on October 28, 2024.
Mr. Menendez is currently 54 years old serving his 34th year in prison at the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility.” READ THE D.A.’S CLEMENCY LETTER FOR LYLE MENENDEZ HERE. The brothers “have respectively served 34 years and have continued their educations and worked to create new programs to support the rehabilitation of fellow inmates,” Gascón noted in a follow-up statement Wednesday.
Read more on deadline.com