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Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

Los Angeles DA opposes new trial for Menendez brothers over parents’ deaths

Two men sit at table in courtroom
Erik and Lyle Menendez in court in Los Angeles in 1994. Photograph: Ted Soqui/Sygma/Getty

Los Angeles’s new tough-on-crime district attorney made clear on Friday he was taking a much less sympathetic view of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s case, though his office has not yet announced what position it will take on the issue of whether the brothers should be resentenced.

Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989, and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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