Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman met Friday with the household of Lyle and Erik Menendez as the brand new high cop weighs resentencing the brothers.
The assembly and subsequent press convention got here after the Menendez household referred to as for a brand new sentence that “displays Erik and Lyle’s abuse, trauma, and demonstrated rehabilitation over the past 35 years.”
“As we put together to satisfy with DA Hochman, our household is eager for an open and honest dialogue,” the household mentioned in a press release launched Thursday night forward of the assembly with Hochman. “Despite the abuse they endured as youngsters and the unfairness of their present sentence, Erik and Lyle Menendez have spent the final three a long time taking duty for his or her actions and contributing positively to their neighborhood by management and rehabilitation.”
The brothers are serving life sentences with out parole for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their dad and mom of their Beverly Hills, California, mansion. The case returned to the nationwide highlight after former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón voiced his assist for resentencing.
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Lyle, left, and Erik, proper, are pictured in mugshots from 2023. After years aside, they had been moved into the identical housing unit at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego in 2018, based on the New York Daily News. (California Department of Corrections)
Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez sit with protection lawyer Leslie Abramson, proper, in Beverly Hills Municipal Court throughout a listening to Nov. 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
At a press convention, the newly sworn-in district attorney mentioned the assembly with the household was “productive.”
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“It was a really productive session the place they gave me all their ideas about what ought to occur on this case, their experiences that they wished to share, the instructions that they wished this case to go,” Hochman mentioned. “It was a really productive dialog over numerous hours.”
Nathan Hochman talks throughout a information convention in Los Angeles Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
The district lawyer mentioned his workplace is working diligently to evaluation the 1000’s of pages of transcripts and court docket data from the case.
“Right now, the resentencing listening to is ready for Jan. 30 and 31. That date is the date we’re working towards. And if that modifications, we will definitely let you realize,” he mentioned. “We will proceed to do that tough however necessary work of reviewing the info of the regulation to make the proper determination in this case.”
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Hochman mentioned his workplace expects to have a choice by the Jan. 30 listening to date.
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Hochman didn’t reveal what he spoke about with the family, saying it was an “casual, off-the-record dialog.”
“We’re going to spend the time essential to get this determination proper,” he mentioned. “There’s not a whole lot of free time in my life proper now, however that’s OK. I didn’t join a job that mentioned I used to be going to have a whole lot of free time.”
