Family members of Lyle and Erik Menendez call for the brothers' release. Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.
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00:00Lyle and Eric deserve a chance to heal, and our family deserves a chance to heal with them.
00:06Ana Maria Barralt joins other Menendez brothers' family members pleading for their release.
00:12This is Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon says his office was reviewing new evidence that could lead to the release or a new trial.
00:22Eric and Lyle Menendez are serving life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
00:29The brothers have said they killed their parents at their Beverly Hills home to escape sexual abuse they endured at their hands.
00:36The truth is Lyle and Eric were failed by the very people who should have protected them, by their parents, by the system, by society at large.
00:46About 20 family members, including their 92-year-old aunt Joan Anderson Vandermolen, argued Lyle and Eric endured horrific sexual abuse and are not a threat to society.