Menendez brothers to seek clemency from Gov. Newsom

LOS ANGELES -- Erik and Lyle Menendez's attorney, Mark Geragos, volition question clemency from Gov. Gavin Newsom successful the hopes of getting the brothers' merchandise by Thanksgiving.

On Wednesday, ABC News reported that the paperwork for a clemency petition was being filed.

"Pending clemency applications are confidential and we're not capable to sermon idiosyncratic cases," the governor's bureau said successful a statement. "More accusation connected the process can beryllium recovered here."

The Menendez brothers are presently serving situation sentences of beingness without parole for the grisly murders of the parents, who were changeable to decease successful 1989.

Clemency from Newsom would alteration the brothers' idiosyncratic sentences but not their convictions for murder.

Last week, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón recommended a resentencing for the Menendez brothers aft caller grounds prompted him to reexamine the case. But Gascón look to enactment their convictions for murder.

In an interrogation with ABC News, the D.A. was asked what helium tells radical successful his ain bureau who accidental the 2 young men intelligibly premeditated the murders.

"We're not letting them off," Gascón replied. "First of all, I've been precise clear: These were brutal murders, they were premeditated and that's wherefore they got beingness without the anticipation of parole."

The lawsuit has present been moved to the Van Nuys courthouse were the archetypal double-murder proceedings was held. Each brother's proceedings resulted successful a hung jury.

The Menendez brothers ne'er denied sidesplitting their parents but insisted they acted successful aforesaid defence aft claiming they suffered years of intersexual maltreatment astatine the hands of their father, fearing for their lives.

If a justice agrees to resentencing, the lawsuit would inactive necessitate support from the Board of Parole and Newsom -- a process that could a year. But if a justice recommends that their execution convictions beryllium reduced to voluntary manslaughter, they could beryllium released immediately.