LOS ANGELES: Lyle and Erik Menendez have been resentenced on Tuesday (Might 13) for the homicide of their dad and mom in 1989, with a time period that now opens the opportunity of parole.
A choose in Los Angeles mentioned the boys’s jail phrases must be modified to 50 years to life, lowering their authentic sentence of life with out the opportunity of parole.
The ruling means the boys, who’ve already been behind bars for greater than three a long time for the bloody shotgun slayings, may very well be freed subsequent month when a parole board meets.
The pair, who’re serving life phrases for the infamous double homicide, have spent two years making an attempt to get their sentences diminished.
At an emotional listening to on Tuesday, relations had pleaded with Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Decide Michael Jesic to open the trail to the boys’s freedom, insisting they have been modified.
Lyle Menendez addressed the courtroom through videolink, admitting he had murdered his dad and mom.
“I killed my mother and pop. I make no excuses. I take full duty,” he mentioned, based on reporters who have been in courtroom.
