Napolitano to Newsmax: Menendez Brothers May Be Free by Christmas

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have been serving a life sentence since 1996 for the 1989 murders of their parents, could be free by Christmas if they are resentenced for their crimes, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Newsmax Friday. 

“Remember, there were two trials,” Napolitano told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “The first trial was a hung jury in which they testified about what they said their father did to them. In the second trial in which that testimony was not permitted, they were convicted.”

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon recommended that the brothers be resentenced to 50 years to life, meaning they could become immediately eligible for parole, as they were under the age of 26 when their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez were murdered. 

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