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Los Angeles District Attorney Seeks Parole for Menendez Brothers

Erik and Lyle Menendez will be eligible for immediate parole after District Attorney George Gascón files a resentencing request on Friday.
Los Angeles District Attorney Seeks Parole for Menendez Brothers
Lyle (L) and Erik Menendez sit with defense attorney Leslie Abramson (R) in Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing on Nov. 26, 1990. Nick Ut/AP Photo
Jill McLaughlin
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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón plans to ask the court Oct. 25 to change the prison sentences of convicted killers Erik and Lyle Menendez, allowing them to be set free after nearly 35 years.

The brothers were convicted of killing their parents at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. They were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 1996.
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