Resentencing recommended by a Los Angeles DA in Menendez brothers case
Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for the 1989 murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez. For decades, the brothers have maintained that the murders were an act of self defense as the result of years of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse at the hands of their father.