Menendez brothers resentencing: What happened and could they be set free? | Courts News

On Tuesday, brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez were resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. The brothers have spent 35 years in prison after they were arrested for killing their parents with a shotgun in 1989.

So what happened to the brothers, and could they be freed?

What happened to Erik and Lyle Menendez?

On August 20, 1989, Lyle, then 21 and Erik, then 18, fired multiple shotgun rounds at their parents, Jose Menendez and Mary “Kitty” Louise, in their Beverly Hills…