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Menendez Brothers May Receive Clemency: Here’s What It Means for Their Sentence

Lyle and Erik Menendez’s case has been revisited, and a new option—clemency—has emerged. Here’s what you need to know about this possibility and its implications for their resentencing.

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón filed a motion on Wednesday supporting the Menendez brothers’ request for clemency from Governor Gavin Newsom. Clemency is a legal power that allows a government official, typically a governor or the president, to reduce the severity of a punishment or grant relief from a criminal sentence. Among the new evidence cited in the 2023 petition is a sworn statement from former Menudo member Roy Rosselló, who alleged that he was sexually assaulted by the brothers’ father, Jose Menendez, in the 1980s.

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