Menendez brothers

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Why it is important: The announcement of the district prosecutor is an reversal of his predecessor George Gascón, who told the court last year that he serves the brothers who now live without probation. A sale could lead to its release.

What Hochman said: “If you finally get clean with the court, the public, with the office of the DA, with your own family members and all of these lies and then fully take responsibility for your actions, the court could deviate these new findings into the decision as to whether you have now qualified and set up again for rehabilitation,” said the district district.

What's next: A judge must make the final decision on the size evaluation. A hearing date in front of the Supreme Court should begin on March 20.

Read on … For details of the case and the reaction of the family of the brothers.

Nathan Hochman, district prosecutor of Los Angeles County, announced on Monday that he would not support that they annoy the brothers Menendez because they did not fully take responsibility for killing their parents more than three decades ago.

The announcement of the district prosecutor is an reversal of his predecessor George Gascón, who told the court last year that he serves the brothers who now live without probation. A sale could lead to its release.

A hearing of the Supreme Court was laid down for later this month, but was pushed for April when a judge is expected to consider the signs of resort.

Hochman said his office was ready to advance this hearing. However, he also spoke in detail about many of the brothers' actions before and after August 20, 1989, shotgun murders in Beverly Hills and specifically found 20 “lies”, which they said before and after their arrest.

The district prosecutor emphasized that Lyle and Erik Menendez first informed the authorities that their parents were victims of a mafia goal. They later admitted that they had killed their parents for self -defense because the brothers feared that they were killed.

Hochman said the Menendez brothers should show that they have an insight into their actions.

If the brothers “finally get clean with the court, the public, with the office of the DA with their own family members and all these lies”, the court could weigh this information and determine whether they qualify for a sale.

Three streets for publication

At the end of the last month, Hochman held a press conference in which he outlined the three different possibilities, how the Menendez brothers were released from prison: an application for mercy by governor Gavin Newsom and a possible hearing for hearing.

In particular, about the Habeas application said Hochman said that his office had sent the court a letter in which it was explained why he believed that the application, which was a legal contestation of the detention on the basis of evidence, should be refused.

Hochman questioned the credibility of evidence that unveiled the Menendez brothers' conviction – a letter from Erik Melendez from 1988 to a cousin that seemed that the father of the brothers was bothering her.

The prosecutor said after the brothers had been arrested for murderous people, they resorted to a “continuum of lies” about the behavior of their parents.

The Habeas application does not deal with the question of whether the Menendez brothers were rehabilitated during the detention.

Regardless of this, the newsom office announced last month that he ordered the probation committee to carry out a risk assessment of the brothers in connection with their request for grace. The State Board will check whether the two would be an “inappropriate risk of public security” if they were released.

Background in the case

Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of murder in August 1989 who shot their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez. They claimed for a long time that they had suffered sexual abuse by their father for years.

Lyle Menendez is now 57. Erik Menendez is 54.

In connection with the murders, they carried out two top -class exams in which they argued that the murders were the result of imperfect self -defense, which means that the brothers killed their parents because they really believed that their life was in danger.

Ultimately, a jury was every first degree murder and condemned them to live in prison without the possibility of probation.

Decades later, the case is back in the spotlight after the advent of several documentaries, many of which concentrated on the abuse claims of the brothers. At least one of these documentaries mentions a letter from Erik Menendez to a cousin months before the murders in which he writes through his father's abuse.

The case has also drawn attention from a new generation of people to social media platforms who say that the brothers have paid their debts to society and should be freed.

What members of Menendez family members say

In addition, many relatives of the Menendez brothers have announced that the couple release them. Hochman heard of family members, including one who opposes the publication of the brothers before saying last month that the brothers should not get a new process. At that time, justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition – consisting of members of the brothers' family – said that they were disappointed by Hochman's explanation.

On Monday they pushed disappointment again. In a statement published after the press conference, they said Hochman broke his promise to listen to them, to keep politics out of this review and to look at the entire picture of the case.

“Let us be clear: Erik and Lyle are not the same boys they were more than 30 years ago,” says the explanation. “They apologized for their actions, which were able to make the results of Joses sexual abuse and kitty.

“They apologized for the terrible actions they did,” continues the statement. “You apologized to us. And you demonstrated your atonement through actions that contributed to improving countless life. Nevertheless, because Hochman asks you to publicly apologize for a checklist of actions that you have taken into a state of shock and fear.”

A judge must make the final decision on the size evaluation. A hearing is set for April 11th.