re: (Update) Menendez brothers will be resentenced. Could be paroled immediately

It's so pitiful that a Netflix dramatization is causing pressure to be applied to our justice system to adjust sentencing for 2 adults that committed VERY premeditated murder then went on enjoying life for months after.

Their abuse is abhorrent, but they didn't kill in the heat of the moment. They planned for at least a week and blew their parents' faces off.

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there is evidence

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there wasn't at the time of the trial

ETA: and regardless, had no bearing on the crime they were charged and convicted of

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ETA: and regardless, had no bearing on the crime they were charged and convicted of

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I would assume I speak for most of us when I say ....

IF the Dad molested them, AND the Mother knew, I am cool with both of their heads getting blown off

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The cousin testified at first trial that Eric had confided in him about abuse.

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not a lawyer but that is hearsay

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The "New evidence" is a the letter that Eric wrote to the cousin 8 months prior to the murder saying that "it was still happening"

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and that sounds very weak, again, none of that factored into what they were charged and convicted of, as it shouldn't

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they claimed abuse as a Hail Mary defense, none was ever proved and, iirc, the judge wouldn't allow it to be brought up in court because there was no evidence

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But now there is new evidence including former clients of their father making the same claim and proof at least one of the boys wrote to a cousin about the abuse at least a year before the murders.

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they claimed abuse as a Hail Mary defense, none was ever proved and, iirc, the judge wouldn't allow it to be brought up in court because there was no evidence

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It was allowed in the first trial and there was a hung jury. It was disallowed in the second trial when they were convicted. There is a bunch of new evidence that has come to light since then that lends some credence to their claims.
I believe they were abused. There is evidence to support it. I believe the mom was complicit in it as well. But I also believe they had other ways out short of blowing their parents heads off. But just packing their shite and leaving meant they would have to give up the lifestyle they were accustomed to and they just couldn't have that. They wanted the parents' fortune. They weren't as smart as they thought and failed to get away with the perfect murder; think Leopold and Loeb.
With all that said, they have been in prison for about 35 years now. There are people who have committed first degree murder with much fewer mitigating circumstances than these two that did less than 35 years. I won't lose sleep either way.

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With all that said, they have been in prison for about 35 years now. There are people who have committed first degree murder with much fewer mitigating circumstances than these two that did less than 35 years.

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Which shouldn't happen either.

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So gary plauche deserved to go to jail for murder?

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Deserve is a loaded word. Should he have gone to jail with our laws? Yes.

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This was a well-orchestrated, pre-meditated, cold-blooded, point blank double homicide.

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Exactly. I believe they were abused. However.

They weren’t kids they were adults. They could have simply left and lived their lives. And told the police.

Instead they wanted the money.

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In a heat of the moment killing? Sure.

This was a well-orchestrated, pre-meditated, cold-blooded, point blank double homicide.

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There are different kinds of self defense. To be fair, and for the sake of argument, are you supposed to lay there and wait for your abuser to kill you or maim you before you act? There are allowances in the law for this sort of thing. I'm not saying this is absolutely the case here, but there is such a thing as imperfect self defense.