Menendez Brothers Press Conference - Their Lawyer Explains Why He Is Optimistic About Their Release

Thank you Peter for updating us on this case from a legal perspective. 💗 Considering everything that these brothers endured growing up, I think that they have served their time and should be given a chance to live their lives instead of remain behind bars for their rest of their lives imho.

OMG FREE THEM PLS

Why can’t the governor commute the sentence

Free them now today 😢😢😢😢😮😮😮

Let them out. If this crime happens today … not a chance it gets punished as harshly. As a society we need to start making it possible for boys and men to announce all forms of abuse. Males are also victims NOT always the perpetrators.

I always thought that there was something wrong with this case. I hope they are freed 🙏. Thanks for covering this. Love ❤️ and hugs 🫂

There is enough doubt now to let them out. They are not a danger to anyone

No one, not even their family, is absolving them of all guilt. The point is that they were violently r***ed since pre-school age, and they’ve productively served more than their time.

They need to be out!!! Don't know how they survived all those years behind bars!! Amazing!!!!

Didn't we always know and agree they were sexually abused but that didn't matter cuz they murdered them instead of going to the police first?

I don't get it why that you killed your parents and now you go to jail,no parole,does that even make sense tho,like,if you didn't even eat the cake,then it was supposed to be your friend did,not you,like,wtf 😒 it's confusing me

I’m a little confused. If there had to be an overt act by Jorge that made Sarah Boone fear for her life in that day so zipped him in the suitcase, why was there no overt act necessary on the day the Menendez brothers decided kill their parents? Also, was the mother involved in the “abuse?” Is it different than intimate partner violence or is it a CA law?

They found a letter, now, after so many years? yet nobody even mentioned it before, when the case was fresh? and you call it evidence?... it`s so fabricated...

I think they should be released. They have spent long enough in prison

Free them now

The Netflix movie is so good, great acting

You called them "boys" they are not. They were adults when they took shotguns and blew their parents away. I was also a victem as a child. Many many girls are. I never would murder my family member. I hated him but moved away and lived my life. They chose as adults to kill. That is why they are in prison. Mom and Dad are not here to defend themselves. Is the Mendez fourtune in play...ya i bet theres money. Sorry murder is murder.

Nooo 😂😂 did he just say "menudo boy" ??!

Does it matter if the abuse was real, and they acted out of desperation? It's just a question, not an opinion. Because if it does, what happens tomorrow when thousands of people murder their abusers?? We have decided not to execute abusers. Had all this come out before the murders, the mother would not deserve a second chance? Where were all these family members before? Would he have opened his door and protected them if they came there wanting protection from their father? Did they ever?

Sexual abuse from a family member, caregiver, good friend, really anyone that you know and care for, including marital rape, is heartbreaking, life-rending and seems to impact more people than you know.

Someone in my extended family who was known to be a perpetrator against their stepchildren (protected by his spouse, never arrested) recently died and I learned of the extent of the abuse. Knowing now that my life has also been touched by one of these heartbreaking statistics, I wonder what would've happened if my family turned out like this ... would I support like victims in the aftermath, like the Menendez family seems to be doing?

I think so.

They were raised by the prison system...extremely sad 😢

Home By Thanksgiving + their relative's birthday and they'll all be celebrating🎉 free for their futures

this case means so much to so many of us for various reasons. I have been so anxious, hopeful and heartbroken for the past few days, looking at the court videos of all of the witnesses essentially proving that the brothers were simply terrorised by their own parents, for years. I am so scared to hope, and I know that I would be absolutely devastated if their requests were denied.  But I also know that, should we get to witness them exiting the gates of the prison and get to hug their aunties and uncles as free men, many of us would be healed of our own wounds. they represent more than mos people understand.

I feel this is a pivotal moment in our society, which will determine whether we and especially the younger generations, can trust our justice system to be fair. many of us are hoping to see proof that victims are being heard and that they are not being unjustly punished for acting out in desperation.
Please keep talking about this over the next few days. I am sure many of us need to not feel isolated and would appreciate any chance to come together in discussion around this case.

Wow! My dad was a CO and from my perspective the fact that they have guards writing on their behalf is HUGE. Not only because I know from experience they can be (fairly) paranoid, they have excellent BS detection, and the guards probably know who the guys currently are the best of anyone. They were with them day in and out for all these years.

That they were abused alone didn't make me feel like the sentence should be reconsidered. MANY people are horrifically abused and don't murder anyone. It can be a consideration in some cases for sure...but anyone who solves problems with premeditated murder would have to meet an incredibly high standard of rehabilitation for me to feel safe with them in society. Sometimes abuse ruins the victim's ability to form empathy and a conscience. It's heartbreaking, but letting those people out to create more victims isn't right.

In their case, it sounds like they have done a lot of rehabilitation. I was still on the fence until I heard the COs would welcome them in their neighborhood...now I'm completely in support if they have a good transition team and a period of some kind of supervision. Mandated therapy or something like that. ...it seems like that would be helpful for anyone getting out after a long sentence.

Who inherited the parents' money when the brothers went to prison? If they get out, will they get their inheritence?

I wonder if the boys went to any of these relatives for help back then would everything be different. Interested in seeing if they get a resentencing.

so suddenly INTENT is overwhelmed by MOTIVE - I have been scolded for asking such questions before on chats just like your - they loaded guns walked up to their parents watching a tv show and shot at them repeatedly - but a made for TV movie now makes you all think they are welcomed back into my community - here where my godchildren live? pathetic - www.leave them there - people like your chat & the "social media" make this political

Thank you for covering this, Peter!

All depends if u believe story -I’d love to her from original lawyer - fact that she won’t comment is odd to me

How did cousin Andy pass? 😢❤

Very good insights on the case

Hope and Pray Kittie’s sister lives to see them freed!!

its a lot,all kinds of situations back in days that was crazy,,slavery,incest,,Egyptian incest..wrongful exutions of minors,,,thank God times has changed...I think the courts mostly looked at the dramatic killing the way they put it in that their face was blown off as when all they had to do is leave,,laws shouldn't had made boys men between 18-21 their brains are still at a teenager under 21 still til this day men don't mature early,,getting a job under 21 doesn't make them good on decisions,,it sad their entire life of being raped at 6,,,until grown of being groomed ,,even in death Jose still rules them in nightmares and they probably still hear his voice...its like a woman abused and got away to anew life ,,its going to take a minute to know he's not there,,,,

Peter, they still killed their parents. Why should they get out of jail early one and four people in this country are victims of child abuse and not everybody who’s a victim of child abuse goes around killing their parents. Why should they get out of prison early?❓

I like that he said that they have been rehabilitated under the norwegian model, more US prisons should look to norway on rehabilitation and education programs in prison.

Give me a break, we have a convicted rapist with 30+ felonies on the ballot for president! We as Americans are not great judges of person body rights and victims rights!
We have to remember OJ shamed this DA office, so the Menendez case had to be a win.

Look they were young and dumb. The were traumatized and messed with. Theyve been in prison for more years than other horrific criminals.
All that i do not condome what they did. But they have served their sentences.

I feel bad for the family. If they were truly abused, I feel bad for them too. However, they murdered their parents while they watched TV. Not as they were abusing them. It wasn't self-defense. I would feel differently if it had been during an assault, but it wasn't. The "boys" (they weren't boys, they were of age) also showed indifference when they went on a shopping spree after the murders. They showed no remorse at all. They, like Sarah Boone, were adults and could have left at any time. They could have (and should have) reported the abuse and gotten out of the house.
Abuse of a child is horrific. It should NEVER happen, but it does, way too frequently. Abuse should not be an excuse to murder.

ben stiller menendez brothers spoof is all i can think about when i see them. Hopefully that will change

Should we allow media to have influence on trials and sentencing? Would it be fine for media to pressure the courts to enhance someone's trial and sentencing?

I can’t believe they are still in jail. The prosecutor, knowing what happened to those kids, should of known better. And should be put in jail for his ignorance. But notoriety, money and power mean more than someone else’s life. What a joke our judicial system is.

They might deserve a new trial, but they should not just be paroled. I thoroughly believe murder should be a capital offense. They should have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the abuse they allege actually occurred. I don’t see that happening. If either of them had killed their father during the abuse, that would be a different story and one would think there would be some physical evidence to substantiate their claims. Make them prove it.

They did it!

Despite their abuse, they did have choice. They were 18, they could have left that house and gotten a job. they could have done so many things. Their rediculous spending after they ended the lives of their alleged abusers and the prison bragging on the phone post first trial gives me great pause. Their choice did want to include the wealth, including napping with a safe. The family is asking for some leniency. As the DA or whomever is the governing body, I would like to hear what the prison programs are saying, what their priest or prison counsel is saying, and I could understand perhaps finishing the sentence for time served and still have parole guidelines in place.

If they were female, they would be out.

I mean, to find this many family members that agree on something so controversial... Either they're some weird religious cult or they believe those men have paid for their crimes. And I do believe they have, too.

I say, ley these men go. They served their time. We all know their parents were the true monsters. This trial wouldn't go down the same today, especially with all of the abuse being disclosed.

𓍲 sa/dv survivor. Not many mention that in this day Jose would be a Pedo since it started at a young age not just in their teens.

I think the reason Lyle didn’t testify the second time was twofold, one because it took everything he had in him to agree to speak about what he had gone through period, let alone on the stand in front of thousands of people, that alone must have been terrifying for him, but secondly he was ridiculed by the media and betrayed yet again by that horrific woman who shared his calls with everyone, when if you listen to them, all he was doing is relating to her how well he thought the trial was going and how his and Erik’s defence was destroying the prosecution and their witnesses by proving they were all lying! Yes he dropped the f bomb and was a little excited it parts of the phone calls, but it was made to look like he was bragging that he got away with lying about everything and the jury fell for his performance! This was a man who was hoping for a good outcome and was feeling elevated that he had spoken about the horrible things his father had put him through and people actually believed him! That witch of a woman pretending to be a good person just joined the list of people who betrayed them for , money, jealousy, or whatever the hell she thought she could gain from their downfall. Those brothers have spent their lives being betrayed in one way or another, they have suffered enough. Please God don’t let them suffer their entire lives… sign the petition and get them out.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Would love to hear your opinion and your followers of the law and crime sidebar with Matt Murphy and Allan Abramson. Thanks!