A Judge of Los Angeles has reduced the sentences of Erik and Lyle Méndez, making them eligible for probation after 35 years in prison for the murder of their parents.
In the true case of crime that seized the United States in the 1990s, the Menéndez brothers were sentenced by first degree murder after they brutally fired and killed their father, José, already his mother, a former beauty queen. In the first prosecution, the brothers walked due to two hungies and a null trial after the defense successfully argued that they killed their parents in panic after facing their father for years of sexual abuse. Two years later, when it was processed for the second time, sexual abuse did not influence the jury and the brothers were convicted.
In 2023, the sexual abuse statements of the Menéndez brothers won some credibility when Roy Rosselló, a former member of the band of children often, claimed that José Menéndez repeatedly abused him when he was a teenager. Like him New York Times Reported at that time:
Roy Rosselló, a former member of often, the band of boys of the 1980s that became a global sensation, is presented with an accusation that José Méndez sexually assaulted him when José Méndez.
The statement was issued on Tuesday in a segment on the “Today” program that described some of the findings of a three -part docuseries scheduled to be issued in Peacock, the NBCuniversal Transmission Service, starting on May 2. The series, “Menéndez + often: Boys Betlayed”, based on the reports of journalists Robert Robert Rand and Nery Erycclan, Largely Focused in Mr. Rossellel. He describes a meeting with Mr. Menéndez, but also recounts separate incidents of sexual abuse that says he inflicted one of the old managers often when he sang as part of the group.
In docuserías, Rosselló described being drugged and raped by José Méndez when he visited his house in New Jersey at the age of 14.
“I know what he did at his home,” says Rosselló about Menéndez in the documentary.
In another clip, Rosselló points out a photo of José Mendez and says: “That is the man here that violated me. That is the pedophile.”
“It’s time for the world to know the truth,” Hey said too.
José Menéndez had signed the group often, sometimes known as the “most iconic Latin music band”, when he served as RCA Records executive. Rosselló and other band members said they abused verbal, emotional and sexual in the four parts of HBO Max Docuseries Often: Forever Young.
Since the explosive accusations became public, the Menéndez brothers tried that the charges be reduced to involuntary homicide. Although the judge of the Superior Court of the Los Angeles County, Michael Jesus, did not reduce the charges, reduced the sentences of the brothers of life without probation to 50 years of life. According to Associated Press (AP), the brothers would be “eligible for probation under the Law of Juveniles of California because they committed crime under 26 years.”
A state probation board will now decide if the brothers will walk for free.
In a live broadcasting video before the audience, Lyle Méndez said that “without excuses” for the murder of his parents.
“I killed my mother and my dad. I did not apologize or justification,” Lyle said. “The impact of my violent actions on my family … is unfathomable.”
Erik apologized to his family. “You didn’t deserve what I did to you, but you inspire me to do better,” he said.
The judge said he reflected extensively on Wheter or not to reduce the sentences and, ultimately, he gave Sem “much credit to change their lives.” It was also “especially transferred by a letter that was presented by an prison officer who wrote in support of resentment, something he had never done for any person imprisoned in 25 years,” according to the AP.
“I am not saying that they should be released, it is not for me to decide,” said the judge. “I think they have done enough in the last 35 years, which should have that opportunity.”
Duration The famous trial, Menéndez’s defense could not produce a witness to testify that children had been abusual sexual or that the father had sexually abused others, why he greatly influenced Jey Ultimatelly by condemning them for murders. The defense had tried to bring the charges to Manslauhter, claiming that the brothers killed their parents in panic after facing them for sexual abuse. Prosecutors argued that the brothers killed their parents to access their assets of $ 14 million. Regardless of the reasons, the murders were undeniably horrible, with José Menéndez five times, even once at the back of the head.
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