The Menendez brothers will be resentenced later this month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney announced.
Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life sentences for murdering their parents in 1989, will have their sentences re-evaluated by a court on March 20 and 21 in Van Nuys.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that he was upholding the resentencing decision on Monday morning – despite blasting their claims of self-defense as ‘lies.’
Hochman told a press conference he plans to sign a new motion begging the court not to give the killer siblings a lesser sentence.
‘We are prepared to go forward,’ Hochman said in regard to the resentencing hearing.
‘However, we are asking the court to withdraw the previous district attorney’s motion for resentencing, because we believe there are legitimate reasons and the interests of justice justifies that withdrawal,’ he added.
Hochman said the new proposal ‘offers a path’ for Lyle and Erik, adding that it gives them room to decide if they want to admit that their self defense claim was ‘phony,’ and ‘finally come clean.’
The DA took over former LA County District Attorney George Gascón’s position after November’s election.
The Menendez brothers will be resentenced later this month, the Los Angeles County District Attorney announced
Gascón initially recommended a resentencing review for the brother’s, 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.
‘The Court must consider such lack of full insight and lack of acceptance of responsibility for their murderous actions in deciding whether the Menendez brothers pose an unreasonable risk of danger to the community.’
Hochman said that the way in which they decided to accept responsibility is not specific, adding that they can do so through declaration or video, among other options.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that he was upholding the resentencing decision on Monday morning – despite blasting their claims of self-defense as ‘lies’
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