Menendez brothers could be freed ‘immediately’ after DA recommends resentencing

The Menendez Brothers are one step closer to freedom after spending 34 years behind bars for shooting their parents dead in 1989.

A California prosecutor said he is requesting that a court resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, now 53 and 56, meaning the pair could possibly be released on parole.

‘I came to a place where I believe, under the law, resentencing is appropriate,’ stated Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón on Thursday afternoon.

‘I believe they have paid their debt to society.’

The brothers will immediately be eligible for parole because they were under 26 years old when they committed the crimes, Gascón said.

Prosecutors will formally make the request in court on Friday.

The district attorney added that some officials in his office were against resentencing and could argue against it.

Erik and Lyle, then 18 and 21 years old respectively, admitted to fatally shooting their father and mother.

The Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996.

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