Hearing for new sentence in case of the Menéndez brothers postponed until March 20 due to fires in Los Angeles

Los Angeles – The Los Angeles prosecutor’s office reported this Friday that The hearing to consider a new sentence in the case of brothers Erik and Lyle Menéndez will be postponed to March 20 and 21due to the devastating fires.

The Postponement of the hearing, originally scheduled for January 30 and 31, “is due to the impact of the recent forest fires in the parties’ extensive preparations for the hearings,” added the brief signed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman.

This hearing, which had its first motion on November 25seeks pave the way to change convictions and prison sentences for the murder of his parents in 1989 after existing Newly discovered evidence that both were victims of child sexual abuse by their fatherJosé Menendez.

Among them, a letter written by Erik Menéndez admitting to another family member that he was being abusedas well as the testimony of a worker from the father’s company who alleges that he was abused by José Menéndez.

The brothers were found guilty in a second trial of the murder of Kitty and José Menéndez at his Beverly Hills home on August 20, 1989, in a controversial case in which The young people reported having suffered sexual abuse by their father.

After 35 years in prison, The brothers regained public attention due to the hit Netflix series ‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez‘, to which was added a documentary and the commotion of a new generation that looks with different eyes at those who were previously seen as ruthless killers.

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