CA - Court upholds Menendez brothers' convictions

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LA DA Hochman in live presser right now.
I came in late, looks like they're getting a resentencing hearing?
Anyone been watching from the beginning?
ETA - Maybe not a hearing... he's still talking (Court TV).
Dude is retrying the case on live TV without a judge or jury present.
IMO.
 
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Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor said he had withdrawn a recommendation Monday that aimed to reduce the prison terms of Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents.
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Los Angeles DA to withdraw recommendation to reduce Menendez brothers' prison sentences

In a reversal of his predecessor’s support for the measure, district attorney Nathan Hochman said there were “legitimate reasons” to justify the withdrawal.
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@BrianEntin


DA Hochman says if the Menendez brothers accept "complete responsibility" - acknowledge that the self defense was phony and parents were not going to kill them -- and "come clean" -- then the court will weigh resentencing. But as of now, he says they do not meet the standards.

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www.dailymail.co.uk

Menendez brothers offered path to freedom... on one condition

The Menendez brothers will be resentenced, according Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman. Erik and Lyle Menendez will have their sentences re-evaluated on March 20 and 21.
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Gascón initially recommended a resentencing review for the brothers, but Hochman said he opposes any retrial for them after outlining 16 lies that they have not accepted responsibly for.

'As a full examination of the record reveals, the Menendez brothers have never come clean and admitted that they lied about their self-defense as well as suborned perjury and attempted to suborn perjury by their friends for the lies, among others, of their father violently raping Lyle’s girlfriend, their mother poisoning the family, and their attempt to get a handgun the day before the murders,' he said.
Rbm.

Among their lies... one would think the girlfriend would know if she'd been violently attacked or not ?
And since she hasn't said this happened, well ....

And what a terrible thing to accuse their own mother of. :mad:
Considering their penchant for telling lies, I find it extremely dubious that they were abused.
Omo.
 
www.courttv.com

Vinnie Politan: It Was Not a Good Day For the Menendez Brothers

Erik and Lyle Menendez's resentencing hearing is coming up, LA DA Nathan Hochman doesn't think they should be eligible for parole.
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3/10/25 --

Vinnie Politan: It Was Not a Good Day For the Menendez Brothers​

Erik and Lyle Menendez's resentencing hearing is coming up, but LA's new DA doesn't think they should be eligible for parole.
 

3/10/25

Lyle Menendez reacts to withdrawal of resentencing recommendation​

 
Yesterday's (March 10, 2025) reporting from Brian Entin:

New Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman will move forward with resentencing proceedings for the Menendez brothers -- but will file a new motion asking the court to consider "lack of full insight and lack of acceptance of responsibility for their murderous actions.”


Hochman says the Menendez brothers have told twenty different lies and have not taken full responsibility.Hochman says the brothers have only admitted to four of the lies, but "persist in the other lies to this day.”


DA Hochman says if the Menendez brothers accept "complete responsibility" - acknowledge that the self defense was phony and parents were not going to kill them -- and "come clean" -- then the court will weigh resentencing. But as of now, he says they do not meet the standards.


Hochman continues to talk about how the "self defense" defense was a fabrication. He wants them to admit that.

@BrianEntin
 
For what the Menendez brothers did to their mother alone, they should stay in prison for life.

They could have sought an opportunity to catch their father alone and kill him , so why did they have to kill Kitty? They had to kill her in order to inherit all of the family money.

Their was no evidence of abuse. They said nothing about being abused in their lengthy conversations with the therapist.
 
Every time I think about this case, I think about how the Menendez Brothers and OJ Simpson cases were happening at the same time. How did OJ Simpson get a not guilty verdict when all of the evidence pointed towards him being the one who killed his victims. But the Menendez Brothers, who admitted to doing it because of PTSD related to trauma experienced in childhood into adulthood are not even being resentenced. SHAME ON THE LEGAL SYSTEM
 
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DA says he would reconsider resentencing only if Menendez brothers admit to 'lies'

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced last week that he's asking the court to withdraw his predecessor's motion for resentencing.
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Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said he would reconsider resentencing Lyle and Erik Menendez only if the brothers admitted to what he said are decades of lies, doubling down on his stance in a new interview with ABC News on Wednesday.

"If they sincerely and unequivocally admit for the first time in over 30 years, the full range of their criminal activity and all the lies that they have told about it," Hochman told ABC News chief national correspondent Matt Gutman that he would then be willing to recommend resentencing.

The remarks come after Hochman announced last week that he's asking the court to withdraw his predecessor's motion for resentencing, arguing that the brothers do not meet the standards for resentencing or rehabilitation because they "persist in telling these lies for the last over 30 years about their self-defense defense."
 

Two prosecutors from Los Angeles County have filed lawsuits alleging District Attorney Nathan Hochman retaliated against them for recommending the Menendez brothers have their prison sentences reduced.

The prosecutors allege they were demoted to junior positions after they supported resentencing for Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 of killing their parents in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.
 
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