The Los Angeles prosecution has announced that the hearing to consider a new sentence in the case of brothers Erik and Lyle Menéndez will be postponed to March 20 and 21, due to the devastating fires, as reported by Efe.
The postponement of the hearing, originally scheduled for January 30 and 31, "is due to the impact of the recent wildfires on the extensive preparations of the parties for the hearings," added the document signed by the district attorney of Los Angeles County, Nathan J. Hochman.
This hearing, which had its first motion on November 25, aims to pave the way for changing the convictions and prison sentences for the murder of their parents in 1989 after recently discovered evidence that both were victims of childhood sexual abuse by their father, José Menéndez.
Among them, a letter written by Erik Menéndez admitting to another family member that he was being abused, as well as the testimony of a father's company worker who claims to have been abused by José Menéndez.
The brothers were found guilty in a second trial of the murder of Kitty and José Menéndez in their Beverly Hills home on August 20, 1989, in a controversial case where the young men claimed to have suffered sexual abuse by their father.
After 35 years in prison, the brothers regained public attention due to the successful Netflix series 'Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story', which was followed by a documentary and the stir of a new generation that looks at them with different eyes than those who were once seen as ruthless killers.