A judge on Tuesday re-sentenced Erik and Lyle Menendez to 50 years to life for the 1989 shotgun killings of their parents in Beverly Hills, making them eligible for parole after serving nearly 35 years.
isn't resentencing against the law? like double jeopardy or whatever it's called
They literally murdered their parents with a shotgun, went out to the car to reload and shot their mom again and the liberals want to let them out of jail. If there were anything you can be sentenced to life without parole for , shooting your mom should be on the list.
From your own link
The brothers were originally sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole
Btfo
It’s one of those Andrew Tate style balds
I mean they literally can't kill their parents again, why does it matter
double jeopardy is getting charged with murder for the same body
resentencing usually happens when new evidence is brought to light or some other extenuating circumstance allows the state to shift a sentence to a lower amount of time
Women think they're handsome, so they equate them being innocent because of how handsome they think they are.
They do it a lot with murderers.
California judges and officials
I'm shocked.
they're going to violate their parole and go back to prison after all this shit people did for them
I hope california pays them damages for punishing them for murdering their own parents.
thanks anon.
Considering how crazy boomer parents can be abandoning their children and all who knows
I blame women for this. They're fucking retarded.
Considering how crazy boomer parents can be
I'm pretty sure their parents had to be silent generation. The brothers were almost boomers themselves
Scott Peterson is next. He's going to go free after murdering his pregnant wife because Netflix retards are going to be convinced that there was an alternative theory some judge's wife is going to nag him into letting the guy free.
This was intentional. Their original guilty plea remains for efficiency sake so that they can be released under parole instead of being stuck in prison for even longer.
the argument is that they were being abused both mentally, physically and sexually by both parents, as context. their second trial was very jewish and they weren't allowed to mention the sexual abuse which rendered their entire defence useless
IIRC, their parents definitely deserved it, and these two are unlikely to reoffend, as their tormentors are already dead and therefore they have no motive to murder anyone else. If they had done it just for fun, or in a drug induced rampage, I’d understand your stance, but in light of the fact that our justice system is supposed to be based around CORRECTIONS(ie, rehabilitation/reeducation) rather than revenge, I see no reason for these two to continue being in state custody, they should have been put through a halfway house program years ago and reintroduced into society.
Who are they a threat to? Other than their own parents? The one brother has A10s, so I say let em out. Fuck it. Give them a second chance, guys.
Op, the reason they were resentenced is because they were given unfair sentences to begin with. They’ve been given 50 to life rather than a life sentence, making them eligible for parole under the CA young offenders program(they were under 26 at time of the crime).
“The brothers were originally sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.”
Lizzie Borden took an axe
and gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
she gave her father forty one!
The publicity at the time iirc was making it out to be they conspired to kill the parents in order to inherit.
Yeah their story is weird
They mention sexual abuse, but didn't want to talk about it a second time to see if their stories match
We didn't know how bad boomers were at the time though
The most fascinating part of this case is how the older brother had a massive toupee at age 18 and how it fucked up his confidence. His lawyer said she spent more time begging the court to allow him to wear the wig to his court appearances than on his defense (and they did allow it). Fucking Norwood Reaper man. This was before fin I think.
Wtf is this true?
They look happier in prison than most of us living in society.
Wait until they get out and see how downhill things have gone since they were locked up.
this but i got a hot take
instead of taking reward money for those court cases which turn out to be horrendous miscarriages of the law, these folks always get a payout from
the state
meaning they get these millions out of taxpayer money - not out of the judge's pocket, not the bailiff's, the clerks' pay, attorneys involved, anyone found to have been negligent up to willingly harmful when playing their role in any such case
none of them pay any damages and YOUR taxpayer money is what rewards those wrongfully abused by the state
THEY NEED TO MAKE THESE PEOPLE INVOLVED PAY
ESPECIALLY JUDGES - or the WHOLE judiciary, so they keep a fucking EYE on each other
if you somehow contact them ask if they'll write a book about it
mite b interesting
There was no new evidence. They used the same argument that the jury rejected at their trial. They made this hail mary claim that they were abused. IIRC they didn't raise it until the trial was already underway, an obvious lie.
This. Lawyers and judges now are mostly women and most of them are aging, horny spinsters. All of a sudden their "defense" became more true.
If you kill your parents and it's justified you shouldn't care if you spend the rest of your life in prison. What good are these faggots to society on the outside at this point?
appeals are just re-arguing the same case the state already rejected
just to get rejected again
never heard of this strategy before
it's fucking ridiculous how a new netflix show or NYT-sponsored podcast with a sympathetic portrayal of any murderer can come out and then the killer's case gets readjudicated, i guess due to popular demand and subsequent pressure on the DA (who wants to get re-elected). the justice system is a farce. democracy is a failure. america is retarded.
what good are you to society?
If they demand a complete retrial, they can end up with a worst punishment if found guilty again. One guy ended up with the death penalty when he demanded a retrial with new evidence.
If the resources are available, there's not a hell of a lot to lose.
That’s accurate, and it’s quite typical for the courts to downplay the possibility of parents having abused their children, because by default it leads to the conclusion that the state failed in its mission to protect children from abuse via various safeguards in the schools and medical system. Or because it’s easy to sell the idea that the kids are lying, especially when there’s little evidence supporting their claims(because parents do a damn good job hiding it).
The evidence they were sexually abused by their parents is quite compelling
reddit.com
shot their mom again
killing is one thing, but way over doing it is rage, hatred, signaling they claims of abuse may be true.
menendez
Spics are almost as bad as niggers in murdering people in cold blood.
Hmmm pretty compelling.
I still question how much claims of abuse can be a mitigating factor in sentencing for premeditated murder. You are essentially twisting a trial about your own guilt into a trial about the guilt of your victim, only your victim is not alive to mount a defence. Seems like a dangerous legal territory to enter.
Victims of Hollywood pedophiles, many such cases, sad.
This was some weird shit. Their father was a top executive for one of the major record labels (I think Columbia or CBS). He was a control freak. He raped those boys relentless. It was horrific. It’s a crazy story if you dig into it.
Very true. Again, he was the executive of a major record label. They lived in Beverly Hills. No one disputes the fact that the boys were raped their entire life. The wife, Kitty was her name (I think), was basically a battered wife. But she was very protective of her husband and far from protecting her kids from him seemed to facilitate much of the rape and abuse. They were horrible people.
Parents were raping those two when they were young
They will rape little kids.
Their parents molested them
Nothing at all to do with that, it’s not about changing the verdict of the jury to “not guilty”. It’s about adjusting the sentence which in part is based on how dangerous they are to society and how important remorse is to their rehabilitation. If they can be reasonably rehabilitated without a sense of guilt—that is, the lack of it in this context doesn’t suggest sociopath tendencies or violent inclination—then they are considered not as dangerous to release and more able to reintegrate and be functional and safe in society
Find them “not guilty” based on sympathy for their crime is called “jury nullification” and a totally different thing
The self-defence claim would never stand up for a not guilty verdict, it is mostly to create mitigating factors for sentencing, which is effectively what has happened today. They could have got a second mistrial, though, if the judge hadn't banned any mention of sexual abuse.