New developments related to Erik and Lyle Menendez's murder conviction have put their chances at freedom closer, and widespread backlash about the case has prompted prosecutor Pamela Bozanich to arm herself.
Gascón wrote letters to Gov. Gavin Newsom, highlighting the men's exemplary behavior behind bars as they serve life for the 1989 murders of their parents.
Of Lyle and Erik Menendez spending decades behind bars, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón said, "I believe that they have paid their debt to society."
"I do worry, and I think it’s important, that the seriousness of my crime not be minimized or diminished," Erik Menendez said of the social media posts discussing his and his brother's convictions.
The reality TV star called for the men's release the same day prosecutors announced a new hearing for Lyle and Erik Menéndez, who are serving life sentences for their parents' 1989 murders.
More than a year after the Menéndez brothers sought to have their 1996 convictions overturned, D.A. George Gascón said "a greater level of sensitivity" would be applied to the case today.
Former Menudo singer Roy Rosselló recently accused former RCA Records VP and murder victim José Menendez of drugging and raping him as a child in the new Peacock docuseries 'Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed.'
The infamous 1989 double murder case is back in the spotlight thanks to a shocking new rape allegation revealed in Peacock's Menendez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed.
While prosecutors painted Lyle and Erik Menendez as spoiled, self-serving liars who killed their own parents to inherit their millions, the defense argued they were traumatized victims of sexual abuse who feared for their lives.
Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 30 years ago. Today, a new generation thinks they didn't get a fair trial.
“The parents were as much on trial as Lyle and Erik Menendez were on trial and why the prosecution tried to stick to a just the facts ma'm narrative. The defense strategy was emotion, emotion, emotion, emotion," a former Los Angeles Times reporter said of the sensational nature of the case.