LOS ANGELES: Lyle and Erik Menendez had been resentenced on Tuesday (Could 13) for the homicide of their mother and father in 1989, with a time period that now opens the potential of parole.
A decide 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 potential of parole.
The ruling means the boys, who’ve already been behind bars for greater than three many years for the bloody shotgun slayings, might 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 attempting to get their sentences diminished.
At an emotional listening to on Tuesday, members of the family had pleaded with Los Angeles Superior Courtroom Choose Michael Jesic to open the trail to the boys’s freedom, insisting they had been modified.
Lyle Menendez addressed the court docket through videolink, admitting he had murdered his mother and father.
“I killed my mother and pop. I make no excuses. I take full duty,” he mentioned, in line with reporters who had been in court docket.
