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More than 70 have been set free since summer, including people jailed for participating in the 2020 protests, but most were close to the end of their sentence or sick.

George Gascón will ask a judge to resentence them in their parents’ brutal murders — opening the possibility that they will be set free after 35 years behind bars.

Some people who should not have been released were set free.

Now, attorneys for the siblings and several family members are seizing on what they see as a chance to get the brothers re-sentenced or, possibly, set free.

Gov. Gavin Newsom previously asked the California Board of Parole Hearings to review its plans to set free Lazarus, and in May the panel moved to further examine evidence in her case.