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Menendez Resentencing Decision Moved Up to This Week, L.A. District Attorney Says

George Gascón told CNN he moved up his timeline because of renewed public attention on the case.

That announcement followed the recently renewed interest in the decades-old case, thanks in large part to the TikTok movement of support around Erik and Lyle and the hit Netflix drama series from Ryan Murphy, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, as well as the subsequent Netflix documentary that interviewed the brothers together for the first time in decades following their 1996 first-degree murder conviction. The newly uncovered evidence that led to the habeas petition includes a recovered letter written by a then-17-year-old Erik to his cousin Andres “Andy Cano” in 1988, eight months before the murders and never brought up in the mid-1990s trials, that corroborates the brothers’ self-defense claims of ongoing abuse from their father; as well as an abuse claim against José from new witness Roy Rosselló, a member of the Puerto Rican boy band Menudo that was managed by José and his RCA Records. So Gascón said what’s under review is the evidence that was never presented that could have changed the outcome, as well as considering, under California law, if the brothers are rehabilitated prisoners who are safe to reenter the community.

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