Menendez Brothers suffer from a crushing blow after the murder sentences were reduced, which led to the hope of conditional release

Erik and Lyle Menendez were only given a crushing blow for a week after he was eligible for conditional release.

The brothers would be confronted with a conditional administration on 13 June, but that hearing has now been pushed back for more than two months on August 21 and 22.

The last setback shows every possibility of freedom with at least nine weeks, after he has spent 35 years behind bars for Murder of both of their parents.

The brothers appeared in it Los Angeles County Superior Court last Tuesday, where judge Michael Jesic reduced their penalties from Living without conditional release Up to 50 years to life.

The change means that they are eligible to request conditional release Californiathe youthful perpetrator law because they are the crime under the age of 26.

But the date of June 13 was already planned as a separate road to freedom. Governor Gavin Newsom had to reveal whether he would consider Clementia for the brothers.

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation gave no reason to postpone the hearing.

Newsom has the authority to grant immediate clementia to the brothers at any time, but securing conditional release can be a month or years of process.

The brothers were ordered in 1996 Spend the rest of their lives in prison FOr deadly on their entertainment -executive father, Jose Mendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their house in Beverly Hills.

The brothers were 18 and 21 at the time of the murders.

Defense lawyers argued that after years of sexual abuse by their father, the brothers acted out of self -defense, while public prosecutors said that the brothers killed their parents for an inheritance of millions of dollars.

“I am not saying they have to be released, it’s not up to me to decide,” Jesic said. “I really believe that they have done enough in the last 35 years, that they should get that chance.”

The brothers are broadly supported by their family members, many of whom have testified on their behalf during legal proceedings. One said that the duo was ‘universally forgiven by the family’ for their actions.

“Today, 35 years later, I am deeply ashamed of who I was,” Lyle told the court. “I killed my father and mother. I don’t apologize and no justification. The impact of my violent actions on my family … is incomprehensible. ‘

The defense started with calling Ana Maria Baralt, a cousin of Erik and Lyle, who testified that the brothers repeatedly expressed regret for their actions.

“We all believe, on both sides of the family, that 35 years is enough,” said Baralt. “They are universally forgiven by our family.”

Diane Hernandez, who also testified during the first process of Erik and Lyle, spoke about the abuse she saw in Menendez’s household when she lived with them and the so -called ‘gang rule’.

“When Jose was with one of the boys … you couldn’t even go up the stairs to be on the same floor,” said Hernandez about the father.

The previous La County District Attorney George Gascón had opened the door last fall for possible freedom for the brothers by asking a judge to reduce their penalties.

The Gascón office said that the case would have been dealt with differently today due to modern insights of sexual abuse and trauma, and the rehabilitation of the brothers in prison for three decades.

A wricky petition laid out by Gascón focuses on the performance and rehabilitation of the brothers.

Since their convictions, the brothers have received an education, have participated in self-help classes and have started various support groups for their fellow prisoners.

But the current public prosecutor Nathan Hochman said he believes that the brothers are not ready for resentment because “they didn’t get clean” about their crimes.

His office also said that it does not believe that they have been sexually abused.

“Our position is not ‘no’, it is not ‘never’, it is ‘not yet’, Hochman said. “They have not fully accepted responsibility for all their criminal behavior.”

On August 20, 1989, armed with two shotguns, the brothers shot both parents like them Watched a movie in their mansion in Beverly Hills.

Their process led to global headlines. Prosecutors said their motive was greed because they were inheriting $ 14 million from their parents.

The brothers stood that they traded against a father who has been sexually abused them for years and a mother who jams for the abuse.

The first test ended with a hung jury. But during a second trial in 1996 – where the judge refused to allow any evidence that the brothers were molested by their father – they were convicted and convicted of prison without possibility of conditional release.

New interest in the case was On average because of the recent Netflix drama, monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and the True Crime documentary The Mendez Brothers.

Both films explained how the brothers claimed to the police that they were coming back from the theater to discover that their parents had been slaughtered.

In the beginning it was feared that a mean murderer was in Beverly Hills, one of the richest communities in America.

But agents switched their suspicions to Lyle and Erik after they started spending their inheritance shortly after their parents’ death.

Lyle bought a Porsche Carrera, Rolex Watch and two restaurants, while his brother rented a full -time tennis coach to start tournaments.

In total they spent $ 700,000 between the time of the death of their parents and their arrests in March 1990, seven months after the murders.

Erik – who said that his father abused him from six to 12 years old – it was in the new documentary that it is ‘absurd’ to suggest that he had a good time in the immediate aftermath of the murders.

“Everything was to hide this terrible pain because they don’t want to live,” he said.

“One of the things that kept me from killing myself was that I would be a complete failure for my father.”