Geragos said that due to the “younger generation,” there has “been a movement.”
“I know that I’ve seen some of those videos of the first trial that was televised where the DA’s office was taking the position that men could not be raped, they don’t have the equipment,” Geragos, who did not represent the brothers during their trial, said at the press conference. “And you’ve seen all kinds of arguments along those lines.”
The attorney continued, “That is unfathomable in today’s age to people who weren’t alive back then. So I think that evolution has been, frankly, seismic.”
Both brothers have for years filed habeas corpus petitions to try to overturn their convictions, most recently in 2023.
“If the habeas would be granted, you would get a new trial,” Geragos said at the press conference. “If they are resentenced, the judge under California law has the ability to recall and sentence them to a wide range of options.”
The petition alleges that the shootings of the Menendez brothers’ parents “were not murder but manslaughter committed out of an honest though unreasonable belief in the need for self-defense after a lifetime of sexual and physical abuse.”
