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Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, has determined Lyle and Eric Menendez, who determine whether an application of grace for the brothers who serve the lifelong sentences for the 1989 shotguns from their parents.

The hearing planned for June 13th in front of the slogan board will not interfere or change an independent examination, but will determine the recommendation for mercy, according to the governor.

“So on June 13th we will have the recommendation of the slogan Hearing Board in connection with the risk assessment (and) with regard to the forensic psychologist,” said Newsom in a episode of its podcast on Tuesday. “And this recommendation that the independent analysis leads the decision -making process that my office checks independently of each other, which relate to the application of grace.”

Newsom said that the recommendation would be both side with the former district attorney of Los Angeles County, George Gascón, who supports a departmental division or the current district prosecutor Nathan J. Hochman, who supported himself against the district states.

At a press conference on Monday, Hochman asked the court to withdraw from Gascón to the brothers' resource development, and added that “our position is that they should not come out of prison now”.

Hochman said that his office had introduced a way that would possibly enable them to spend the rest of their lives outside the walls of a prison, after which the brothers “finally recognize and fully accept and completely adopt and completely adopted them, including their defense of self -defense”.

When will the Menendez brothers come from prison?

Lyle and Eric Menendez are currently betting a life in prison terms after they were convicted in 1996 for the first degree murder.

The brothers are expected to return to court in separate hearings on June 13, where a suspension is being unloaded will make a recommendation as to whether a mercy is progressing.

According to California law, if you are annoying according to Gascón's recommendation, you would have entitled to probation for the youth, since you were under 26 years at the time of crime and have served in prison for 30 years.

A probation committee would then evaluate whether they were rehabilitated and certainly enter society. Newsom would then have the last word because California allows the governor to accept, change or reverse the decision of the board of directors.

Has Newsom saw the Netflix show of the Menendez Brothers?

Newsom said he saw no adaptive content regarding the Menendez brothers, including the popular Netflix dramatized scripts series by Ryan Murphy, which was premiered last autumn.

Although he saw some clips on social media, newsoma said that he was deliberately avoided by seeing documentaries or scripting content about the case.

“I do not intend to see this series because I don't want to be influenced by them. I just want to be influenced by the facts,” he said in his podcast. “I am obviously familiar with the Menendez brothers, only through the news for many decades, but not to the extent that many others are traced back to all these documentaries and all the attention they have received. This will not affect my objective review of the facts.”

What did the Menendez brothers do?

The Menendez brothers were convicted of killing their father, the wealthy manager of the music industry, Jose Menendez, and mother Kitty Menendez in a resumption after their first murder processes with two hung juries. The defenders initially argued that Lyle, then 21, and the then 18-year-old Erik were physically and sexually abused, feared that they could kill their parents to prevent them from uncovering the abuse and fatally shot them in self-defense.

During the second trial, a judge concluded essential evidence of the alleged abuse, fighting her lawyers and family members. The prosecutors argued that the brothers invented abuse and killed their parents to receive their estimated assets of $ 15 million. Claimed that were fueled by a wasteful Spree Spree, which the couple went on after the murders.

Why the district prosecutor LA does not support that Menendez Ressscing

The district prosecutor of Los Angeles, Nathan J. Hochman, compared the risk assessment of the granting of the Menendez brothers with another top -class killer, Sirhan Sirhan, who murdered Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968. System.

He admitted, as family members have advertised that the brothers took part in prison programs, won an apprenticeship, have committed only a few violations of the standard and supported living relatives of the victims who published them. But Hochman said that in both cases the main problem was the lack of “complete insights into their crimes and the full responsibility for their actions”.

Hochman said that in more than 80 pages that his team submitted over a dozen lies that the men told, and the actions they took after their parents' murder, including the guilt of murders on the mafia and the attempt to force friends to confirm their history. He said, although they admitted to some of these lies, the men continue to claim that they killed their parents because they were afraid of their lives, a defense highly called “invented”.

“They still exist in these lies to this day. As with Sirhan Sirhan, who was unable to give a complete insight into his actions, the Menendez brothers have no full insight into their actions,” he said.

Could newsom only grant them?

As governor, Newsom has the authority to grant grace itself. The brothers' lawyers submitted an application for grace to his office, and at the end of the last month he ordered the state probation committee to examine whether the men represent an “inappropriate” public security risk if they were released from prison.

Hochman said on Monday that the evaluation could take up to 90 days, and the Court of Justice may want to see this report before keeping the hearing on size evaluation.

Contribution: Karissa Waddick, Terry Collins, Christopher Cann, Jorge L. Ortiz and John Bacon, USA Today