Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon is the sort of progressive prosecutor who thinks it is his job to curb mass incarceration. Last week, the L.A. DA announced he is reviewing the sentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted of the savage shotgun killing of their parents in 1989 and sentenced to life without parole.
The brothers are the subject of a Netflix series, “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” and a Netflix documentary, “The Menendez Brothers.”
Gascon told Newsweek his office is reviewing the case because of a 1988 letter that Erik Menendez wrote to a cousin about alleged sexual abuse by his father and a statement from a former Menudo band member who alleged Jose Menendez sexually assaulted him.
Be it noted, Lyle and Erik Menendez were 21 and 18 at the time they slaughtered their parents, Jose and Kitty…
