A Los Angeles judge has reduced the sentences of Erik and Lyle Menendez, making them eligible for parole after 35 years in prison for the murder of their parents.
In the true crime case that gripped America in the 1990s, the Menendez Brothers were convicted of first-degree murder after they brutally shot and killed their father, José, and their mother, Kitty, a former beauty queen. In the first prosecution, the brothers walked due to two hung juries and a mistrial after the defense successfully argued they killed their parents in a panic after confronting their father about years of sexual abuse. Two years later, when prosecuted a second time, the sexual abuse failed to sway the jury, and the brothers were convicted.
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