THE Menéndez brothers will make a virtual appearance and may speak at a court hearing scheduled for next Monday, during which some members of the media and public will get a glimpse of the brothers for the first time in decades.

Lyle and Erik Menendez, who are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 1989 shooting murders of their parents in Beverly Hills, will attend Monday morning’s hearing remotely from their San Diego Jail.

Monday’s status conference will focus on the current state of the debates recommendation for new conviction made by outgoing prosecutor George Gascón.

“I sometimes call it housekeeping,” said Mark Geragos, the brothers’ lawyer, adding that the parties involved would confirm or change the date of the resentencing hearing originally set for Dec. 11 because Gascón did not know about it. SO. he would be re-elected. “(We’ll discuss) ‘Are we meeting on the 11th?’ Do we have enough time? How many witnesses will decide?’

Although the brothers are eligible to appear in the Van Nuys courtroom Monday morning, Geragos said they will attend the hearing online.

“My office submitted forms so they wouldn’t have to be dragged here (to Los Angeles County) at the taxpayers’ expense and vice versa,” the defense attorney explained.

Despite renewed enthusiasm and interest in the sensational story of the brothers, who used shotguns to kill their own parents while José and Kitty Menendez watched television in their Beverly Hills mansion in the summer of 1989 , largely thanks to television shows and documentaries, the world will neither see nor hear of the Menendez brothers. Only a lucky few will.

Some members of the media and those who win a public lottery will be able to see what Lyle and Erik Menendez, now in their 50s, look and sound like.

Sixteen members of the public will be able to attend the hearing in person as the Los Angeles County Superior Court will conduct a public lottery between 9 and 9:30 a.m. Monday from the West Van Nuys Courthouse following lottery ticket distribution between 8 and 9 a.m. . am

There will be no cameras in the courtroom, but cartoonists will provide drawings of Monday’s hearing.

The Menendez brothers will have a second trial next Tuesday as prosecutors are expected to answer before a judge the habeas that defense attorneys had filed in 2023.

The court had set a deadline for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to respond to the brothers’ 2023 petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which claims their convictions and prison sentences are unconstitutional in light of what They claim to be newly discovered evidence that the brothers were victims of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of their father, José Menendez.

Geragos, who had previously hoped to bring the freed brothers back by Thanksgiving, said his goal now was to have them home by Christmas, adding that the brothers were “cautiously optimistic” about an eventual release.

“The attitude is that this has been a rollercoaster of emotions,” Geragos said.

When Lyle Menenedez spoke to NBCLA during a prison interview in 2017, he said he tried not to imagine his life outside of prison.

“I think it would be a little torturous to dwell on that,” Menendez’s older brother said, adding that he and his brother Erik were trying to stay healthy and keep their spirits up. “For me, hope is not in this form. For me, hope is simply keeping a strong mind. Believe that your life is not a failed life because it is marked by so many tragedies.