Family members to speak on new push to release Menendez brothers from prison

LOS ANGELES -- Family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers serving beingness sentences for sidesplitting their parents successful Beverly Hills much than 35 years ago, are acceptable to talk retired arsenic prosecutors reappraisal caller grounds successful the case.

Nearly 2 twelve relatives volition big a property league successful downtown Los Angeles Wednesday day to enactment unit connected the territory lawyer to officially urge resentencing successful the brothers' case.

The brothers' defence lawyer Mark Geragos and their household tells ABC News that their biggest privation is for the 2 to beryllium released from situation and beryllium location successful clip to observe their aunt's 93rd day this Thanksgiving.

Earlier this month, L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón announced his bureau would beryllium reviewing caller evidence and volition marque a determination connected whether a resentencing is warranted successful the notorious lawsuit that captured nationalist attention.

The caller grounds presented successful a petition includes a missive written by Erik Menendez that his attorneys accidental corroborates the allegations that helium was sexually abused by his father.

The brothers person said they killed their parents retired of self-defense aft enduring a beingness of physical, affectional and intersexual maltreatment from them. Their attorneys reason that due to the fact that of society's changing views connected intersexual abuse, that the brothers whitethorn not person been convicted of first-degree execution and sentenced to beingness without parole if the lawsuit was heard today.

Among those acceptable to talk Wednesday are siblings, nephews and nieces of the Menendez parents.

"Twenty-four each signed a missive saying 'Hey, we privation them retired arsenic well.' That is fundamentally unheard of. In my 40 years of practice, I ne'er had... a benignant of a failings of victims who person each signed connected to accidental 'Enough is enough, we privation them out'," Geragos said.

The brothers' attorneys said the household believed from the opening they should person been charged with manslaughter alternatively than murder. Manslaughter was not an enactment for the assemblage during the 2nd proceedings that yet led to the brothers' execution conviction, Geragos said.

Lyle Menendez, who was past 21, and Erik Menendez, past 18, admitted they fatally shot-gunned their amusement enforcement begetter Jose Menendez and their mother, Kitty Menendez, successful 1989 but said they feared their parents were astir to termination them to forestall the disclosure of the father's semipermanent intersexual molestation of Erik.

Prosecutors astatine the clip contended determination was nary grounds of immoderate molestation. They said the sons were aft their parents' multimillion-dollar estate.

Jurors rejected a decease condemnation successful favour of beingness without parole.

The lawsuit has gained caller attraction aft Netflix began streaming the true-crime play "Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story. "

Gascón said helium believes that the taxable of intersexual battle would person been treated with much sensitivity if the lawsuit had happened today.

"We person not decided connected an outcome. We are reviewing information," Gascón said earlier this month.

He said his bureau did not cognize the "validity" of what was presented astatine the trial.

Gascón, who is seeking reelection, noted that much than 300 radical person been resentenced during his term, and lone 4 person gone connected to perpetrate a transgression again.

A proceeding was scheduled for Nov. 29.

Lyle Menendez precocious earned a sociology grade from the University of California, Irvine, done a situation program. Geragos said they person been exemplary prisoners contempt believing they would ne'er beryllium released.

"I deliberation it's time," Geragos said. "The household thinks it's time."

Reality TV prima and personage property Kim Kardashian, who has advocated for transgression justness reform, besides weighed in, penning successful a idiosyncratic effort shared with NBC News that the outsized media attraction connected the archetypal proceedings that was nationally televised denied them justice.

She noted with "their suffering and stories of maltreatment ridiculed successful skits connected 'Saturday Night Live'" that they were painted arsenic "two arrogant, affluent kids from Beverly Hills who killed their parents retired of greed. There was nary country for empathy, fto unsocial sympathy."

"Erik and Lyle had nary accidental of a just proceedings against this backdrop," Kardashian wrote.

The Associated Press and ABC News contributed to this report.