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Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison

LA Times  

Erik Menendez, center, listens to his attorney Leslie Abramson, as his brother Lyle looks on in Beverly Hills in 1991. “The methodology to study that case is the same whether it gets media attention or not,” Hochman said Saturday on “Fox & Friends.” “You got to speak to the prosecutors, law enforcement, victim family members and the defense, and only …

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Resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Menendez in 1989 killings of their parents set for Dec. 11
2 months, 1 week ago

Resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Menendez in 1989 killings of their parents set for Dec. 11

The Independent  

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D.A. supports Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency after nearly 35 years behind bars
2 months, 1 week ago

D.A. supports Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency after nearly 35 years behind bars

LA Times  

Los Angeles County Dist. George Gascón said Wednesday that he supports the Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency from Gov. Newsom.” Mark Geragos, one of the brothers’ attorneys, said he wants them home for Thanksgiving and would also pursue clemency from Newsom, who acknowledged on a podcast last weekend that he was reviewing the matter and mentioned the Netflix docudrama “Monsters: …

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Will the Menendez brothers be set free? How the parole board, the governor and a new D.A. could change things
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Will the Menendez brothers be set free? How the parole board, the governor and a new D.A. could change things

LA Times  

Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez leave courtroom in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 6, 1990, after a judge ruled that conversations between the two brothers and their psychologist after their parents were slain are not privileged and can be used as evidence in their murder case. George Gascón’s blockbuster announcement that he will seek to have Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced …

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Los Angeles DA Calls For Menendez Brothers To Be Resentenced
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Los Angeles DA Calls For Menendez Brothers To Be Resentenced

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Los Angeles County district attorney recommended Wednesday that Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers known for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, be resentenced. The timeline for the brothers’ potential release from prison is uncertain, Gascón said, but he believes that after nearly 35 years in prison, they have “paid …

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Frustration and criticism as L.A. County D.A. struggles to reform sentencing
1 year, 4 months ago

Frustration and criticism as L.A. County D.A. struggles to reform sentencing

LA Times  

Barry Hawes was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a shooting in which there was never proof he fired a gun. Tiffiny Blacknell, a spokesperson for Gascón’s office, defended the resentencing initiative and said the number of people who’ve benefited is “greatly multiplied” if expanded to include the work of other units in the office. “It’s much easier to …

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A California lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families
1 year, 8 months ago

A California lawyer cashed in on criminal justice reform by fanning the hopes of inmates’ families

LA Times  

When California enacted landmark criminal justice reforms several years ago, inmates and their families saw a chance at freedom. “He said he was the top attorney.” Whatever its basis, Spolin’s promotional material impressed people like Amanda Allen, whose then-husband, Johnte, was serving life without parole for a 2006 murder in Bakersfield. Spolin, he said, remarked that the pay was “at …

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