Judge resentences Menendez brothers
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Legal experts' weighed in following the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez after a California judge ruled that the convicted killers would be immediately eligible for parole.
The two-day proceeding in L.A. ended its first day with the judge resentencing the brothers imprisoned for over three decades for their parents' 1989 murders.
Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, after arguing that they acted in self-defense.
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Three cousins of Lyle and Erik Menendez testified in a Los Angeles courtroom on Tuesday in support of the brothers' bid to win release from life sentences they received for the shotgun murders of their parents in Beverly Hills 35 years ago.