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Menendez Brothers’ Sentences Should Be Reduced, D.A. Says
Lyle and Erik Menendez could go free, after D.A. George Gascón asked to reduce their sentences.
Andersen believes that justice was served when the jury found Erik and Lyle Menendez guilty of multiple murders for financial gain and the judge sentenced them to life without the possibility of parole,” Cady wrote in brief to the court on Tuesday. “Throughout his disastrous tenure as DA, Gascón has consistently prioritized celebrity cases over the rights of crime victims, showing more interest in being in the spotlight than in upholding justice,” said Michele Hanisee, the association’s president. The defense, led by attorney Mark Geragos, also argued that testimony from Roy Rossello, a member of the boy band Menudo — who has accused Jose Menendez of sexually assaulting him when he was 13 or 14 — would have changed the outcome of the trial.
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