{"id":10889,"date":"2024-10-28T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10889"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:40:44","slug":"the-unraveling-of-george-gascon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10889","title":{"rendered":"The Unraveling of George Gasco\u0301n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasco\u0301n threw a “hail Mary” last week announcing that he will seek the resentencing and release of the Menendez brothers.\u00a0 Phil Helsel and Antonio Planas of NBC news report<\/a> that at a press conference last Thursday Gasco\u0301n told reporters, \u201cI believe that they have paid their debt to society.\u201d\u00a0 Gasco\u0301n has stated several times that no criminal should spend more than 20 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

The cold-blooded shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 by their two sons Erik and Lyle, who were 21 and 18 years old, was among the most notorious murder cases in Los Angeles history. Erik and Lyle snuck into their parents’ house with shotguns and came up behind them while they were watching television, shooting Jose 8 times and Kitty 10 times.\u00a0 The brothers initially claimed that they discovered their parents’ bodies and suggested that burglars killed them. They later admitted the killings but claimed self defense due to their father’s alleged sexual abuse. The brothers were tried twice for the murders.\u00a0 At the second trial a jury sentenced them to life-without-the-possibility-of-parole.<\/p>\n

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At the first trial, the attorneys for the brothers argued that they had been molested by their father. It ended in a mistrial. At the second trial, the judge refused to allow the allegation of sexual abuse because there was no evidence to support it. As reported<\/a> by NBC Los Angeles:<\/p>\n

Les Zoeller, the Beverly Hills Police Department detective who investigated Jose and Kitty\u2019s murders, also said previously that there was no evidence of rape and sexual molestation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a big fairy tale,\u201d Zoeller, who died in 2021, told NBC Los Angeles in 2017. \u201cThey murdered the best witnesses we had.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kitty Menendez’s brother, Milton Anderson, told NBC that the brothers decided to kill their parents when they learned that, because they refused to get jobs, their father threatened to cut them out of their $14 million estate.<\/p>\n

The new evidence that sparked the call by celebrities and bleeding hearts was an undated letter to a now-deceased cousin citing the molestation.<\/p>\n

Shortly after his election, District Attorney Gasco\u0301n recruited former defense attorneys to fill supervisory positions, and began a years-long effort to seek court rulings to dramatically reduce the sentences for murderers, sex offenders, and violent gang members.\u00a0 Dozens of these violent offenders have gained release through Gasco\u0301n’s effort. This, and his policy of not prosecuting thousands of offenders, has repulsed Los Angeles County residents to the extent that polling has his opponent, law and order former prosecutor Nathan Hochman, with a 30-point lead in next week’s November 5 election.<\/p>\n

It seems likely that Gasco\u0301n’s newly-announced effort to free the Menendez brothers is a political calculation that might garner votes from young people, ignorant of the Menendez brothers’ crimes, and the diminishing population of bleeding hearts still living in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The opposite is probably true.\u00a0 Gasco\u0301n’s obvious inability to “read the room” and his total abandonment of crime victims and the law-abiding public is going to propel him from office, probably to a professorship at U.C. Berkeley or some other liberal academic enclave. The place where rejected progressive district attorneys go to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasco\u0301n threw a “hail Mary” last week announcing that he will seek the resentencing and release of the Menendez brothers.\u00a0 Phil Helsel and Antonio Planas of NBC news report that at a press conference last Thursday Gasco\u0301n told reporters, \u201cI believe that they have paid their debt to society.\u201d\u00a0 Gasco\u0301n has stated several times that no criminal should spend more than 20 years behind bars. The cold-blooded shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 by their two sons Erik and Lyle, who were 21 and 18 years old, was among the most notorious murder cases in Los Angeles history. Erik and Lyle snuck into their parents’ house with shotguns and came up behind them while they were watching television, shooting Jose 8 times and Kitty 10 times.\u00a0 The brothers initially claimed that they discovered their parents’ bodies and suggested that burglars killed them. They later admitted the killings but claimed self defense due to their father’s alleged sexual abuse. The brothers were tried twice for the murders.\u00a0 At the second trial a jury sentenced them to life-without-the-possibility-of-parole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Unraveling of George Gasco\u0301n - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=10889\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Unraveling of George Gasco\u0301n - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasco\u0301n threw a “hail Mary” last week announcing that he will seek the resentencing and release of the Menendez brothers.\u00a0 Phil Helsel and Antonio Planas of NBC news report that at a press conference last Thursday Gasco\u0301n told reporters, \u201cI believe that they have paid their debt to society.\u201d\u00a0 Gasco\u0301n has stated several times that no criminal should spend more than 20 years behind bars. 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