Hysterical TikTokkers film themselves reacting to Menendez DA decision

TikTokkers have been celebrating the announcement that LA's District Attorney has officially recommended a resentencing for the Menendez brothers, who brutally killed their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. 

Following what the brothers claim was a lifetime of abuse at the hands of their parents, Jose and Kitty, Lyle and Erik, then just 18 and 21, by shooting them 14 times with 12-gauge shotguns in their million-dollar Beverly Hills home. 

After a complicated series of trial, the first of which was declared a mistrial, they were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996. 

But yesterday, LA's DA George Gascón said he was recommending they be resentenced, meaning they could potentially be let out of prison within weeks, though the courts will have the final say on this. 

Since then, TikTok users have claimed to be tearful upon hearing the news. 

One social media user shared a video of herself wiping a tear away and fanning her eyes as Paramore's The Only Exception plays over it, with a quote from Gascón's conference on Wednesday that reads: 'I believe [the Menendez brothers] have paid their debt to society... and they are eligible for parole.' 

Another was seen with her jaw on the floor in reaction to Gascón's press conference, covering her mouth in shock when he had revealed his decision. 

A third reacted to the announcement with a video titled: 'When it's been announced that the Menendez brothers will be recommended for immediate release in court tomorrow.'

The TikTokker was seen lip-syncing to a quote from the hit Netflix show covering the case, Monsters, in which one brother says to the other: 'Yes motherf***er, yes! You're getting those trousers in every color bro.' 

LA's DA George Gascón said he was recommending they be resentenced, meaning they could potentially be let out of prison within weeks, though the courts will have the final say on this. 

The petition will be filed today, along with evidence that supports Gascón's recommendation of changing their sentence to life with the possibility of parole. 

While this normally carries a 50-year-sentence, since the brothers were under 26 when they killed their parents they would be eligible for youthful parole under California law. 

An LA Superior Court judge will make the decision at a hearing, expected to take place within 30-45 days after the DA's resentencing unit, headed up by Nancy Theberge, coordinates with the courts to set a date. 

One of the brothers' attorneys, Mark Geragos, said he believes they will be home in time for Thanksgiving. 

While the Menendez family, who have largely rallied around the brothers since Jose and Kitty were killed, filed a separate habeas corpus petition, a request to investigate whether the brothers were wrongfully imprisoned, they are expected to rescind this. 

This is because the need to investigate would be moot if they are let out of prison before the end of their sentence. 

Gascón has already said he doesn't agree with the family's petition, which was filed last November. 

'I think that the conviction was appropriate given what was there,' Gascón told CNN, adding: 'But I do believe the resentencing is an appropriate vehicle for them to be provided some avenues of relief.

'They have been model prisoners by all accounts. Not only have they worked on their own self-improvement, but they have done a lot of work to better the life of those around them, which that part is unusual. 

'What they did was horrible. They premeditated the murder of their parents and killed them. But I think they’re different people today, and we base our opinion on the last 35 years of behavior.' 

The announcement comes on the back of mounting community pressure to reconsider the life sentences without parole Erik and Lyle received at their 1996 trial.

The brothers have never denied killing their parents, but have long claimed they were driven to do so after suffering years of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of their businessman father. 

The public was unconvinced by their claims in the 1980s, believing instead they were ruthless monsters. 

But in recent months, a TikTok movement of more sympathetic fans and a duo of Netflix shows has won them favor.