George Gascón, the Los Angeles county district attorney, has recommended that the Menéndez brothers be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents, a step that is expected to lead to their release. Gascón said during a news conference on Thursday that the pair should be resentenced, and that life without the possibility of parole be removed, after the office reviewed new evidence in the case. They will be eligible for parole immediately because of their ages at the time of the murder, he said.
We can go back in time and re-sentence someone to what they should have been sentenced to, if only public sympathy they have now had been present at the time!
The development is a major victory to the brothers and their supporters who said that they killed their parents in self-defense after years of sexual, physical and psychological abuse by their father. Prosecutors had argued that they were driven by greed and a desire to inherit a multimillion-dollar fortune.
But now there's a hit Netflix series, that modern addition to the legal process, changes have to be made.
Gascón said he believed the brothers’ account of abuse.
“I do believe the brothers were subjected to a tremendous amount of dysfunction in the home, and molestation,” he said.
“They have been in prison for nearly 35 years. I believe that they have paid their debt to society.”
Whatever happened to 'It doesn't matter what I believe, what matters is what I can prove'..? Is the US legal profession beholden to Netflix ratings now?
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