Kim Kardashian says Menendez Brothers had been ‘granted a second probability at life’ after many years in jail

Kim Kardashian shortly voiced her assist on Thursday after Los Angeles prosecutors beneficial that Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 murders of their dad and mom. 

“The Menendez brothers had been granted a second probability at life and can get up tomorrow lastly eligible for a parole listening to,” the fact star, 43, wrote on her Instagram Story. 

Kardashian is a jail reform advocate, who beforehand labored with the Trump White Home to cut back sentences for a number of convicts discovered responsible of non-violent offenses. She additionally spoke on the White Home earlier this yr about legal justice. 

Kardashian has been a vocal advocate for the brothers not too long ago, having visited them in jail close to San Diego and writing an op-ed, urging their launch. 

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Kim Kardashian shortly voiced her assist on Thursday after Los Angeles prosecutors beneficial that Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 murders of their dad and mom.  (Mike Nelson//AFP by way of Getty Photos; /AFP by way of Getty Photos)

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Kardashian famous on Thursday that the convicted murderers might be launched in as little as six months following the prosecutors’ suggestion. 

“Thanks, George Gascon, for revisiting the Menendez brothers’ case and righting a big fallacious. Your dedication to reality and equity is commendable,” she wrote of the Los Angeles district lawyer. 

“To the brothers’ household, buddies and hundreds of thousands who’ve been vocal supporters – your voices had been heard,” she added. 

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She mentioned the media’s concentrate on the case, “particularly on the heels of Ryan Murphy’s TV present, helped expose the abuse and injustices of their case.”

Kardashian famous on Thursday that the convicted murderers might be launched in as little as six months following the prosecutors’ suggestion.  (Kim Kardashian/Instagram)

She added that “Society’s understanding of kid abuse has advanced, and social media empowers us to query the programs in place. This case highlights the significance of difficult selections and searching for reality, even when guilt just isn’t in query.”

Kardashian concluded, “I imagine within the justice system’s potential to evolve, and I’m grateful for a society the place we will problem selections and search justice. By no means cease questioning.”  

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“I imagine within the justice system’s potential to evolve, and I’m grateful for a society the place we will problem selections and search justice. By no means cease questioning.”  

— Kim Kardashian

Kardashian is a jail reform advocate who beforehand labored with the Trump White Home to cut back sentences for a number of convicts discovered responsible of non-violent offenses. She additionally spoke on the White Home earlier this yr about legal justice.  (Picture by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for The Met Museum/Vogue)

In her NBC op-ed, Kardashian wrote that their case is “extra advanced than it seems on the floor,” arguing that the brothers deserve empathy over their claimed abuse by their father. 

“Following years of abuse and an actual concern for his or her lives, Erik and Lyle selected what they thought on the time was their solely approach out — an unimaginable approach to escape their residing nightmare,” Kardashian wrote. 

She mentioned that after the jury was deadlocked of their first trial, the choose determined lots of their abuse claims had been inadmissible within the second trial. 

Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez sit with protection lawyer Leslie Abramson, proper, in Beverly Hills Municipal Court docket throughout a listening to, Nov. 26, 1990.  (AP Picture/Nick Ut)

“Their solely approach out of jail now’s loss of life,” Kardashian mentioned on the time, writing that their first televised trial grew to become “leisure for the nation,” and that they had been portrayed as “monsters and sensationalized eye sweet” by the media, “two conceited, wealthy children from Beverly Hills who killed their dad and mom out of greed.”

“There was no room for empathy, not to mention sympathy,” she mentioned.

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She claimed that the brothers had “no probability of a good trial towards this backdrop.”

Kardashian additionally talked about spending time with them in jail, claiming they’ve “exemplary disciplinary information,” which Gascon additionally famous on Thursday as a part of his reasoning for resentencing. 

They “should not monsters. They’re form, clever, and sincere males,” she argued. 

Kardashian additionally mentioned that one of many jail wardens informed her he could be comfy having the brothers as neighbors. 

Whereas Kardashian referred to as the murders of their dad and mom “inexcusable,” she mentioned the brothers had been handled extra like “serial killers” than two males who had “endured years of sexual abuse by the very folks they liked and trusted.”

Kardashian mentioned the media’s concentrate on the case, “particularly on the heels of Ryan Murphy’s TV present, helped expose the abuse and injustices of their case.” (Taylor Hill/Getty Photos)

She added, “I don’t imagine that spending their whole pure lives incarcerated was the proper punishment for this advanced case. Had this crime been dedicated and trialed at present, I imagine the end result would have been dramatically totally different. 

“I additionally strongly imagine that they had been denied a good second trial and that the exclusion of essential abuse proof denied Erik and Lyle the chance to completely current their case, additional undermining the equity of their conviction.”

Kardashian additionally informed Selection earlier this week that she thinks “they by no means bought a good second trial and I really feel like ever since, for me, watching Ryan Murphy’s ‘Monsters’ present it actually opened up and confirmed me a lot about abuse. Think about if nobody believed you.” 

An undated picture of the Menendez household because it seems on display throughout a panel at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, June 2. The brothers Lyle and Erik had been convicted of fatally taking pictures each of their dad and mom in 1989.  (Michael Ruiz/Fox Information Digital)

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She added, “The DA’s workplace actually ought to proper the fallacious that they did a few years in the past. It doesn’t imply that they shouldn’t have executed time. It simply signifies that I actually imagine that they deserve a second probability they usually’ve executed sufficient time.”

On Wednesday, Gascon mentioned he’ll suggest a sentence of fifty years to life for every of the brothers, which might make them instantly eligible for parole underneath state legislation as a result of they had been underneath 26 on the time of the murders. “They’ve been in jail for almost 35 years,” Gascon mentioned. “I imagine that they’ve paid their debt to society.”

He added {that a} resentencing have to be authorised by the courtroom earlier than it turns into official and {that a} parole board will nonetheless have to log out on their eventual launch.

Fox Information Digital’s Michael Ruiz contributed to this report