Menendez Brothers - Do you think they should be resentenced with a possibility of release?

[Doodley]

I say absolutely not.

[Elessar Zappa]

1. Maybe.

Hasn’t it been shown that they were subjected to severe abuse? I’ll admit to not following the story closely, it all happened when I was a little kid.

[LiberalLoner]

3. I am glad it's getting looked at again. As a victim of abuse I 100% believe they were abused horribly.

[beaglelover]

5. Yes their father raped them and other boys. Their Mom

Knew about it and did nothing.

[beaglelover]

2. Yes absolutely. They have more than served their time.

[Doodley]

7. What is an appropriate time for blowing the brains out of both parents?

[Tree Lady]

13. well if my father raped me

and mom was ok about it I might go insane and do something awful.

[Doodley]

18. Would you gather any evidence of that? And would you be breaking into houses too?

[Tree Lady]

20. I don't know the whole story

was just answering to what I would do if my parents did that. For all I know maybe they belong in jail. I really don't know.

[WarGamer]

15. this...

[Kittycatkat]

4. Yes

[Enter stage left]

6. You shouldn't sentence us to prison...

We're orphans!

[Doodley]

9. Lol!

[hlthe2b]

10. Yeah... I can't get the images of them partying, spending the $$$ wildly in rented limos and so on afterwards...

But, I am not following the current issues and case (and I definitely don't intend to watch the damned Netflix bit), so I will just say I hope justice prevails.

[chowder66]

8. I don't know much about the case....

I remember it on the news (I live in L.A.) but I didn't pay a lot of attention to it. However, I did listen to Gascon and I felt his explanation was reasonable. As he said it's still up to the judge to decide.

Gascon has reviewed and resentenced 300 cases and only 4 ended up committing technical violations. That's a very good track record.

[Doodley]

14. None of the 300 reoffended.

That we know of.

Apart from protection of society and correction of behaviors, prison sentencing has several functions:

Justice
Deterent
Retribution

IMO, some crimes are so heinous that the criminals should never be freed.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

11. Yes! People with mental health issues should not be judged by laymen.

The area I live in has a mental health court with a judge who is knowledgeable. Social workers and mental health counselors are the workers in it. A lot of the public tends to have NO CLUE when it comes to mental health issues and many times has screwed up attitudes towards psych patients and abuse victims. Uninformed members of the public have no business deciding these cases. As a psychiatric social worker, I constantly run into people who are totally ignorant about psychology and mental health. They tend to be scared of my clients. People in fear cannot be fair.

[Doodley]

17. I'm not concerned about their mental health. They blasted the brains out of their parents.

[former9thward]

21. Their parents were rapists.

Period.

[PlanetBev]

12. Jose Menendez was known to be a real bastard

According to his employees, one of his favorite things was firing people before Christmas.

[Joinfortmill]

16. Yes. But, I undestand why folks would disagree.

[Baggies]

19. Given the evidence that wasn't admitted in the first trial....

Couple that with new evidence and witness testimony, and I’m guessing they get released.