Los Angeles (AP) – The judge has spent on Friday that Eric and Lille Mindez would get a new shot in freedom after 35 years behind bars to kill their parents.
Los Angeles Supreme Court judge reduced the provisions of brotherhood from life without conditional release to 50 years. They are now eligible for conditional release under the law of the young perpetrator in California because they committed the crime under the age of 26. The conditional release council in the state must decide whether to be released from prison.
Jessic said: “I do not say that they should be released. It is not more beautiful to decide,” Jessic said. “I think they have done enough in the past 35 years, and they should get this opportunity.”
The brothers did not show any clear emotion during most of the testimonies because they appeared through the Livestream video, but they laughed when one of their cousins, Diane Hernandez, told the court that Eric Menendes got+ degrees in all his classes during the last semester of the college.
Los Angeles judge chairs the session before deciding whether they should be released after nearly 30 years in prison for the dual murder of their parents. He said on Tuesday that the plaintiffs must prove that if they were released, the brothers are still risking a violent crime again.
If he fails their rulings, the brothers will still need approval from the conditional state of the state’s condition to leave the prison. They can then liberate on time.
In 1996, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of conditional release of their father, Jose Menendes, and the mother, Kitty Minendez, at their home in Beverly Hills in 1989. The brothers 18 and 21 were at the time of the killings. While the defense lawyers argued that the brothers acted with self -defense after years of sexual assault by their father, the prosecutors said that the brothers killed their parents because of millions of dollars inheritance.
The issue acquired the audience’s attention for decades – last year, the Netflix “Monsters: The Lyle, Erik Manendez” and the documentary “The Manendez Brothers” is new to the issue. Supporters of brothers have flew from all over the country to attend gatherings and sessions in the past few months.
Listen with a testimony from a family member
The defense began to contact Anna Maria Baral, the cousin of Eric and Layl, who witnessed that the brothers have repeatedly crossed their remorse for their actions.
“We are all, on both sides of the family, we believe that 35 years are enough,” said Baralet. “They forgive the world by our family.”
Another cousin, Tamara Godll, said that she recently took her 13 -year -old son to meet the brothers in prison, and that they will contribute a lot in the world if they were released.
Hernandez, who also witnessed during the trial of Eric and Layl, talked about the abuse she witnessed in the Mindez family when she lived with them and the so -called “hallway rule”.
Hernandez said of the father: “When Jose was with one of the children … she could not even climb the stairs to be on the same floor.”
The judge to judge a lower punishment
Brotherhood lawyers must prove that they have been rehabilitated in prison and deserve a sentence less than 50 years old. This would make them eligible for conditional release under the law of the young perpetrator in California because they committed the crime under the age of 26.
Defense lawyer, Mark Geragos, said outside the court on Tuesday that he wanted the judge to reduce his concern for wrongful killing and give them the time that they are allowed to release him immediately.
It is expected that at least seven family members will witness in listening sessions.
The general prosecutors in Los Angeles Province argued against discontent. They say that the brothers did not bear full responsibility for the crime.
Giragos stressed that the purpose of resentment is to “encourage rehabilitation.”
“This is the law, it does not link the facts of the crime as Da wants to do,” said Geragos.
Former provincial lawyer and Fami
For any discontent support
George Jaskoun, a former lawyer in Los Angeles, opened the door to the freedom of the potential brothers in the past fall by asking the judge to reduce their rulings. His office said that the case would have been dealt with differently today due to the modern understandings of sexual assault and shocks, and the rehabilitation of brotherhood for three decades in prison.
GASCón has focused on the achievements of brotherhood and rehabilitation. Since their condemnation, the brothers got education, participated in the chapters of self -assistance and started various support groups for their guests.
A former judge said he considered himself harsh in the crime, Jonathan Kulby, to the court that he admired the programs that the brothers started during the prison period in prison to provide assistance and care for the older and disabled guests. Get to know them on a series of prison visits.
He said: “There are not many prisoners that I met like Eric and Layl who have such anxiety for the elderly.”
The former inmate, Anira Brown, was attesting to how he helped the brothers in healing and carry out the path to rehabilitation, which led to his release from prison.
He called the programs that started “University of Mendes”.
“I have children now,” he said. “Without night and lery, you may still sit there while doing stupid things.”
The course of the new public prosecutor Los Angeles Los Angeles has been changed
The current provincial lawyer, Nathan Hoshman, said on Tuesday that he believed that the brothers are not ready to resent because they were “not clean” about their crimes. His office also said he did not think they were sexually abused.
“Our position is not” no “, it is” not “never,” it is not yet. “
Recently, the general prosecutors have indicated the analysis of the criminal psychologist who said that the brothers had recently broke the prison bases by smuggling mobile phones inside, which Hachman argued that they were unable to organize their behavior. Hachman said that it had reached the conclusion that they were more “weight” more than other others to engage in violence in society.
Hochman’s office has tried twice to withdraw the resentment seam, but both attempts were rejected by the Los Angeles Michael Jessic province. He can decide to discontent with the bench or to issue a ruling written later.