Menendez Brothers' Freedom In Hands Of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom

The Menendez brothers are 1 measurement person to seeing life extracurricular situation walls aft a bombshell determination to trim their life sentences, leaving nan adjacent hurdle successful nan hands of California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic slashed nan original sentences for Erik and Lyle Menendez from life successful situation to 50 years successful situation pinch nan anticipation of parole.  

Jesic's determination to resentence nan Menendez brothers opens nan doorway for a parole proceeding to find whether they should beryllium released.

"The mobility for nan committee is simply a elemental 1 — do Erik and Lyle Menendez, do they airs a current, what we telephone `unreasonable consequence to nationalist safety,'" Newsom antecedently said connected his podcast, "This is Gavin Newsom." 

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The Menendez brothers will look a parole committee successful June arsenic portion of a abstracted push for clemency from California Gov. Gavin Newsom. (Getty Images)

In October, Mark Geragos, nan brothers' lawyer, revenge clemency documents pinch Newsom aft erstwhile Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón asked a judge to trim their sentences. 

"I powerfully support clemency for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are presently serving sentences of life without anticipation of parole," Gascón antecedently said. "They person respectively served 34 years and person continued their educations and worked to create caller programs to support nan rehabilitation of chap inmates."

In consequence to their petition for clemency, Newsom directed nan authorities parole committee to behaviour a "comprehensive consequence appraisal investigation" of nan Menendez brothers.

Newsom described nan appraisal arsenic a "common process carried retired by nan state." 

"There's nary guarantee of result here," Newsom antecedently said. "My agency conducts dozens and dozens of these clemency reviews connected a accordant basis, but this process simply provides much transparency, which I deliberation is important successful this case, arsenic good arsenic provides america much owed diligence earlier I make immoderate determination for clemency."

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Lyle and Erik Menendez person a parole committee proceeding June 13. (Ted Soqui/Sygma via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Newsom's office, which referred to a news convention Wednesday successful which he said concisely astir nan parole process for nan Menendez brothers and said nan process is still unfolding.

"We started a process, arsenic you know, which was intended to thief pass nan judge successful nan resentencing of nan consequence assessment. We thought that would beryllium prudent to do earlier immoderate resentencing. That process has unfolded complete nan people of nan past number of months, and forensic psychologists did an appraisal of nan consequence of each individual brother," Newsom said. 

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California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom (Late Night pinch Seth Meyers/Screenshot)

Certain specifications of those consequence assessments, which person not been made public, were presented during portion of Tuesday's resentencing hearing. The study from those reports typically includes what led a personification to perpetrate nan crime, behaviour successful situation and nan likelihood of recidivism. 

Both brothers admitted to sidesplitting their parents, Mary "Kitty" and Jose Menendez, successful a gruesome 1989 shotgun massacre wrong their Beverly Hills home. Until Tuesday's resentencing hearing, they had maintained that their actions were self-defense from a life of beingness and intersexual maltreatment by their parents. 

Newsom's agency explained that nan ineligible modular successful California for merchandise connected parole is whether an inmate poses an unreasonable consequence to nationalist safety, which has to beryllium wished earlier nan politician tin make a determination connected commutations. 

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Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez (California Dept. of Corrections via AP, File)

"This process doesn’t mean there’s immoderate guaranteed outcome, but it shows we’re doing our owed diligence, ensuring transparency, keeping nationalist information astatine nan forefront, making judge nan process is adjacent for everyone progressive and getting person to a conclusion," Newsom's agency said. 

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told Fox News Digital it is "looking into nan judge’s determination and adjacent steps successful nan parole process."

"When a tribunal resentences a defendant, it issues nan caller judgement to CDCR. The section past processes nan judgement arsenic quickly arsenic imaginable while complying pinch ineligible mandates," nan section said. 

The section added that "if an incarcerated person’s condemnation is changed to let nan anticipation of parole, CDCR would find applicable parole-eligible dates."

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Clemency from Newsom is besides still a possibility. 

"So, nan mobility for nan parole committee is, will they reserve that arsenic a much accepted parole process, aliases will they take to person a abstracted pathway to an independent parole analysis?" Newsom asked.

"And that's a speech that we're having to make that determination. So, it's conceivable to nan constituent that connected June 13 location could beryllium a proposal to me. I'm nan eventual arbiter and will person to reappraisal nan parole board's recommendations and report. It's besides conceivable that this will hap months and months later. So, that's a process that we're making that's been wished successful existent time." 

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Newsom's June 13 parole committee hearings are planned to spell connected arsenic scheduled, and nan committee will person nan opportunity to free nan brothers. 

No matter what happens pinch their clemency request, Newsom would still person nan last opportunity complete whether they should spell free.

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Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Neama Rahmani told Fox News Digital Tuesday that Erik and Lyle Menendez "will apt beryllium freed successful a matter of months," adding he does not expect "the parole committee aliases Gov. Newsom" to artifact their release.

Even if nan parole committee approves their release, nan politician has veto powerfulness and could rumor a pardon connected his own. 

Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.