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Grossman cited Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón’s recent press conference on the brothers’ case to suggest the show had made an impact.
The brothers’ attorney filed a petition in May 2023 to vacate their murder convictions, but Gascón addressed it publicly for the first time last week. He told the press conference that his office was reviewing the case for a possible resentencing or retrial.
Gascón said he had been receive lots of calls about the petition since “Monsters” premiered.
Acknowledging she isn’t a legal expert, Grossman said of the show: “I think it raised interesting questions, and I think those questions have activated the Los Angeles District Attorney, and we’ll see what happens.”
The LA District Attorney did not immediately respond to an out of hours request for comment from BI.
Grossman added: “My daughter, who’s about to be 18, and her friends didn’t know about this case. They didn’t grow up knowing about this.
“So a whole new generation of people is aware of it, and that brings attention and eyeballs, and that can only help the brothers try to make their case.”
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During a debate on Tuesday for the upcoming LA District Attorney election, Gascón said that his office was already reviewing the case before “Monsters” premiered and had a hearing scheduled in November for the petition.
He said that after “Monsters” was released “we immediately started to get bombarded with media requests and calls because the case came back again to the surface, and the decision was made that rather than answer one media request at a time that we would actually just come out and very clearly said where we are.”
It remains to be seen whether the renewed interest will change the brothers’ conviction or sentences. Laurie L. Levenson, a law professor from LA, previously told Business Insider that the series would need to provide compelling new evidence to help the brothers in a court of law.
“I think judges, in general, are a bit suspicious of what’s on television. They draw a line between real facts and entertainment facts,” Levenson said.