Menendez brothers await Newsom’s parole decision after decades in prison

Calif. Governor Gavin Newsom said that he will make the decision if Erik and Lyle Menendez are suitable for probation on the day of the 1989 work for their parents’ shotgun murders in their Beverly Hills villa.

Before the Menendez Brothers Menendez on August 21st and 22nd, Newsom discussed the case on Sunday with the Creator “Monsters” Ryan Murphy In his podcast: “This is Gavin Newsom.”

The governor holds the last word and is expected to make a decision until the day of the work if the probation authority recommends the release.

“These are heavy things,” said Murphy.

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Newsom said he intentionally avoided observing the Netflix series about the Menendez brothers in order to prevent an external influence on his judgment.

“I always had the temptation to see it, but with the recognition always in mind that this thing ends up on my desk,” said newsoma to Murphy. “I don’t want to be convinced of something that is not in the files.”

The producer joked that Newsom could finally see the series on the day of the Labor Day, since the recommendation of the probation committee is expected until the end of August.

“I will see if I made the right decision,” said newsoma with a laugh.

During her one-to-one lunch before the series premiere, Murphy said to Newsom that the show would captivate intensive debate.

“And you start talking to me about it, and you said all, ‘I’m sorry,” said Newsom. “And I didn’t appreciate how rightly they apologize.”

“Monster” and the documentary “, the brothers Menendez”, mostly contributed to a renewed fascination for the 1996 process, which led to the process Bombing In Los Angeles Superior Court, where judge Michael Jesic reduced her life without a slogan to 50-to-life, which she entitled to consider the probation.

The hearing of Menendez Brothers’ June changed from grace to probation when the decision for the government was made. Newsoma

In a press conference after the judgment on Wednesday, May 14th, Newsom explained the multi-layered process in which the authorization of the Menendez brothers was taken into account. The governor said that a team of forensic psychologists carried out individual risk reviews for every brother before concluding a decision.

“We thought that was advisable,” he said, said that these assessments were not only “discussed” District Prosecutor of Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman And the family of the victims, but also by the judge “both publicly in another conversation, some of them behind closed doors”.

The risk assessment of the Menendez brothers ”was arranged before the newsoma was heard

The theme of the brothers’ Comprehensive risk reviews (Cra) was a sticking point for Hochman. The brothers were identified as “moderate risk”, an increase in their previous “low risk”.

After each report, the moderate risk was given that the brothers had been led in the past few months due to violations of smuggling against smuggling, in particular the possession of mobile phones.

Hochman first divided the knowledge of Lyle Menendez, whose “actions deceived” and spoke about the smuggling. He added that Lyle “had played down his breakdowns” and that his report “claim and willingness to meet his own needs”.

Together with the illegal use of mobile phones, Erik was marked for possessing and dealing with drugs and other inmates were helped with tax fraud.

Hochman who was on one Stubby platformwas loud about the lack of rehabilitation of the brothers.

In the podcast episode on Sunday, Newsom said that probation decisions are based on “established criteria”, such as: B. In-Prison behavior and psychiatric reviews.

During an earlier lunch discussion, Murphy Newsom said that he initially spoke out against the publication of the brothers, but changed his perspective while working on the series after having heard of actors and writers who were involved in the project.

“I really think they should be published,” said Murphy. “I was amazed at how I got into something in such a defined point of view and had come out of it at the end of the thinking.”

Murphy said he was particularly moved by the decades of good behaviors of the brothers and the unity In your family.

“If not now, when? What benefits for society do we have by holding them there when they come from prison and can actually serve something good? I think that’s a powerful thing,” said Murphy.

Menendez brothers ask California Gov. Newsom for grace

Newsom recognized the moral debate about the case.

“The flip page is that people let people say: ‘What is it useful to send a message that they can kill and publish both parents?'”

He also pointed out that many sentences do not have the same access to top -class supporters or opportunities as the brothers Menendez. At the same time, others who committed even stricter crimes were granted on probation and served less time.

“It is a very slippery slope and it’s a really hard road and I feel for her,” said Murphy.

In August 1989, Beverly Hills Socialites José and Kitty Menendez were shot in their house.

Hochman previously described the murders as “mafia-like hits” and noticed the violent nature of the repeated rounds that were fired at the parents.

The then 18 and 21 -year -old brothers were convicted in 1996.

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The defense claim was that the brothers had been violently driven by years of physical and sexual abuse in the hands of their father.

Despite the first process that led to a hung juror that led to her later conviction in 1996, the public is divided whether the brothers acted in greed or self-defense.

Fox News Digital turned to Newsom’s office to get a comment.