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While the infamous murderous brothers Erik and Ly Mendéndez expect their probation audience of August, they have obtained a legal victory in another front, this time in the form of new evidence that they say it could lead to their absolute.
The couple, who admitted to having killed their parents, Mary “Kitty” and José Mendez, in a bloody shotgun massacre of 1989 inside his home of Beverly Hills, said for years that his actions were votes of self -defense from his life from a lifetime from a life from a life of a useful and sexual life.
A judicial order of July 8 obtained by Fox News Digital will force the State to explain why evidence of that effect of its trial was prohibited.
Erik Menéndez, on the left, and is Brother Lyle, in front of his house of Beverly Hills. They are main suspicious in the murder of their parents. (Los Angeles Times through Getty Images)
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Approximately eight months before double homicide, Erik Supposedly wrote a letter To his cousin, Andy Cano, claiming that José had abused him and Lyle.
In addition, an affidavit of Roy Rossello, a member of a band of children named often, said that José, a record executive, raped him was a 14 -year -old boy in 1983 or 1984. Rossello made the claim the claim after the alleged alleged Alleg.
In March 2023, the brothers presented a request for habeas claiming that if they had allowed them to use the canoe letter as evidence, and if Rossello’s claim had been made before and presented in his second judgment, a jury would not have convicted them.
This combination of two photos of reservations from the California corrections department shows Erik Menéndez, on the left, and Lyle Méndez. (California department or corrections through AP, file)
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In an informal response to that request, presented by the Office of the District Prosecutor of Los Angeles County, Nathan Hochman, in February of this year, prosecutors denied that the letter and the affidavit constituted new evidence. They said that Cano’s letter was “inopportune.” They also said that Rossello’s affidavit was “inadmissible, irrelevant and lacks credibility.”
But the order of July 8, transmitted by the Judge of the Superior Court of the Los Angeles County, William C. Ryan, said that the letter and the affidavit constitute a facie cousin that shows that the brothers are entitled to relief of habeas.
The district prosecutor’s office is now subject to a “show cause” response in the next 30 days. In his response, Hochman’s office must explain why the relief of brothers’ haws should not be granted.
The lawyer Mark Geragos talks to journalists at the Resentment Hearing of the Menéndez brothers, Van Nuys, California, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
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The brothers sought a new trial in 2023, but since then they have changed their approach to their own resentment, which was granted in May. Judge Michael Jesus resonted the brothers 50 years of age with the possibility of probation. They were previously serving life without probation.
Since then, the brothers have been waiting for that probation audience. After it was initially scheduled for June 13, it was postponed until August 21 and 22.
35 years have passed behind bars.
Read the full order below: