The harsh district attorney on Los Angeles' new crime revealed on Friday that he has a much more sympathetic view of the Eric and Lyle Menendez case, but his office says he should be if the brothers should be It has not yet been announced what position it will take on the issue. I resented.
Eric, 53, and 56-year-old Lyle, Menendez, are found guilty of first-degree murder in the 1989 murder of Jose and Kitty Menendez. Judgment To live in a prison without parole.
The defense said the brothers feared their parents would kill them and cover up years of sexual, psychological and physical abuse. The prosecutor portrayed the brother, the son of a media executive. They repeatedly appealed to their beliefs without success.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman said at a press conference Friday that he doesn't believe Eric and Lyle Menendez deserve a new trial petitioned in 2023, giving evidence that their two brothers were sexually abused. He said he raised doubts about the supporting evidence. Their father.
However, he also said he was not prepared to announce whether his office would support resentment in the 1996 murder conviction.
“Sexual abuse is abominable and in all forms of prosecution of sexual abuse. In this situation, sexual abuse may have been the motivation for Eric and Lyle to do what they did, but that's self-defense. It doesn't constitute the “.” Hochmann said. Citing the previous prosecutor on the case, he said: “Sexual abuse doesn't justify killing your parents.”
The brothers testified about the sexual abuse they said they had experienced, but Hochmann said:
Hochman also said the brothers did not first talk about sexual abuse in accounts of their parents' murder. ''
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has the “one-sided” power to commute to his brother's sentence if he chooses to do so, Hochman said. “He has that power today.”
After more than 30 years in prison last year, the brothers saw a major development in their case. It was in the spotlight with a new documentary and a Netflix series produced by Ryan Murphy.
Hochman's announcement comes four months after the city's former district attorney, more politically progressive George Gascon, recommended his brothers to resent. This is a move that supporters hoped would lead to the release of their brothers.
Gascon revealed he supports generosity in his brother's case, but reportedly said Not all lawyers in his office I agreed to him.
“I believe the brothers have been exposed to a huge amount of dysfunction within the home,” Gascon said in October. “They were in prison for nearly 35 years. I believe they paid debts to society.”
Some supporters hoped that res tinsing could mean that he could be released from prison or home by Thanksgiving or Christmas 2024.
However, the judges in their case delayed the scheduled hearing and gave Hochman time to review the case, and to make him run a platform on crime and expel Gascon as district attorney. The monthly election overturned those expectations. My recommendations.
In his first official statement on Friday regarding the contents of the lawsuit, Hochman highlighted the brothers' changing statements, their “lies” and atrocities, and his criticism of many aspects of the brothers' actions in the case. This has revealed a view. Killing his parents' shotgun.
Hochmann argued that the new evidence the patient presented in 2023 was fresh, unrelated, unrelated and unrealized, and that “the court denies the current habeas-protection petition by two brothers.” It should,” Hochmann said at a press conference that delves into the legal details of the case. Or substantial enough to deserve a new trial. The District Attorney's Office shared video They had broken evidence in the Menendez case.
Hochman said he has filed an informal response to a habeasistic petition urging the court to refuse it.
Newsom announced in November that it would postpone its decision on whether to provide sibling leniency until a new district attorney considers the case.
January, Superior Court Judge Michael Jessick I pushed the hearing Two more months due to the Los Angeles wildfires – until March 20th and 21st.
Hochman, who took office in December, had not previously stated whether he supported the sibling's responsible proposal, which was featured at the hearing in March and could soon be eligible for parole.
In December, Brian Friedman, the lawyer representing a group of 24 Menendez families who help release the brothers, said: Publicly condemns HochmanA spokesman from the office called “Merrirless,” a conflict of interest office over the incident, criticised.
since then, Hochmann met with more sibling parents As he reviews their cases, it includes thousands of prison records, determining the “rehabilitation aspects” of their restinsing.
Most of their extended families support the release of their brothers; I said They deserve to be freed after decades behind the bar. Several relatives have said in today's world where they better know the effects of sexual abuse, the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder and not sentenced to life in prison, as in 1996. It states.
Lyle MenendezIn 1989, 21 and 18-year-old Eric Menendez admitted to fatally shooting his parents, but he suspected that his parents were trying to kill them to prevent disclosure of their father's long-term abuse. I said.
Prosecutors said there was no evidence of abuse at the time, and many details of the sexual abuse story were not permitted in the trial that led to their conviction in 1996. Prosecutors accused the brother of killing his parents with money.
In 2023, two important new evidence emerged in the incident. The brother's father was written before the murder, supporting the allegations of abuse, and testimony from a former member of the boy band Menudo who said he was abused by Jose Menendez. The brothers filed a habeas-safe petition in response to new evidence in 2023 that they challenged them to violate their beliefs.
Last year, the new documentary and the controversial Netflix series by Ryan Murphy, Monster: The Lyle and Erik Menendez, have been criticized by some families as “The Lyle and Erik Menendez.”Grotesque shock drama”, highlighting the stories of the brothers and evidence of the abuse they suffered. The brothers, including Kim Kardashian, have gathered behind the brothers, including Kim Kardashian, who publicly called last year.
“We spent time with Lyle and Eric. They're not monsters,” Kardashian writes. “They are kind, intelligent and honest men.”
Dani Anguiano and the Associated Press contributed to the report
