Results: Family of Erik and Lyle Menendez call for their release and say they're victims who were vilified

Multiple generations of family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez pleaded for the brothers’ release from prison on Wednesday, saying they deserve to be free despite life sentences for the 1989 killings of their parents in Beverly Hills because they had been “brutalized” and sexually abused by their father. At a news conference in downtown Los Angeles, relatives of the Menendezes said the American public “vilified” the brothers in the wake of the notorious crime, which received national attention, and the jurors who sentenced them to life without parole in 1996 were part of a society that was not ready then to hear that boys could be raped. The public call for their release — by some 30 relatives from both sides of their parents’ families — comes less than two weeks after the Los Angeles County district attorney announced his office would review new evidence to determine whether the brothers should be serving life sentences.

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