In 1996, the Menendez brothers were convicted of killing their parents in their home in Beverly Hills and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. In 2023, an attorney that represented the brothers wrote a letter to the judge asking for the sentence to be vacated due to abuse that the brothers had endured as children. While representatives say there is no doubt that the brothers committed the murders, they agree that 30 years in prison is plenty of time, considering that two happy children got sadder and sadder over the years due to the abuse they endured over the years.