David Bridges
The choose who will determine the destiny of Erik and Lyle Menendez may do far more than what the D.A. is asking for … he may free them the very day he hears their case.
As we reported, L.A. County D.A. George Gascón has filed authorized docs asking Choose William C. Ryan to resentence the Menendez brothers. Primarily based on a brand new regulation, the choose may change their sentence — life with out the potential of parole — to the potential of instantly profitable parole.
TMZ.com
Factor is … for Gascón to get his approach, the Parole Board must maintain a listening to after which determine if Erik and Lyle have been rehabilitated and are now not a menace to society.
However get this … we checked the regulation, and the choose has the facility to truly change the conviction from homicide to voluntary manslaughter given the brand new proof and the curiosity of justice.
In California, the utmost sentence for voluntary manslaughter is 11 years — the brothers have served almost 35 years, so they’d be immediately free males after the listening to.
Sources with direct information inform TMZ … Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, will ask the choose to just do that … change the conviction to voluntary manslaughter. Given the best way Gascón described the case, it appears unlikely he mount an objection.
As we reported, L.A. County Superior Courtroom Choose Ryan has a popularity for fearlessness — not afraid to reverse one other choose’s ruling when he feels it was fallacious … so he would be the excellent choose for the brothers.
A listening to date has not been set, however there’s certainly the likelihood the Menendez brothers will likely be at a Thanksgiving desk within the free world.
