New Los Angeles DA issues stern Menendez Brothers case update on possible freedom ahead of bombshell hearing

The incoming Los Angeles territory lawyer has issued a stern informing to Erik and Lyle Menendez's fans arsenic a bombshell resentencing proceeding approaches. 

Nathan Hochman, 60, said the Menendez brothers' fans mightiness not genuinely recognize their lawsuit and their resentencing shouldn't beryllium rushed, helium told the The Daily Beast. 

He fears the resurgence successful popularity of the lawsuit comes from the explosive Netflix bid and documentary that covered their crimes - some of which he's been avoiding up of making the large decision. 

'I purposely conscionable didn’t privation to spot [the shows] due to the fact that what’s the point? It’s not similar I’m going to ticker the movie. I’d alternatively work the book,' helium told The Daily Beast. 

'I person immoderate vague recollections of the lawsuit 30 years agone and that’s each the much crushed wherefore I consciousness compelled to…really get heavy into the facts.' 

Hochman,- who volition regenerate his predecessor George Gascón, who called for the proceeding - went connected to accidental that 'newspaper accounts are wildly inaccurate often connected what the existent facts of a lawsuit looks like.'

Hochman besides won't beryllium blinded by celebrity endorsements from the likes of Kim Kardashian and Cooper Koch, who played Erik successful the Netflix series. 

One of Gascón's past acts successful bureau - and 1 speculated to assistance boost his reelection run - was to ask a justice to resentence the lawsuit to manslaughter charges.

The justice is acceptable to marque a determination connected the lawsuit connected December 11, but Hochman has signaled helium volition inquire for an hold arsenic helium lone takes bureau connected December 2. 

However, the Menendez lawsuit is inactive a 'high priority,' helium told The Daily Beast. 

'Any clip a peculiar lawsuit gets this level of attention, it’s adjacent that much important to get it right,' helium said. 

Super fans were hoping the men would beryllium released from situation by Thanksgiving, but Hochman said that wouldn't beryllium imaginable arsenic the lawsuit is rather complicated.

The brothers, present 53 and 56, volition much apt not get retired earlier the extremity of the year.   

Their way to state tin instrumentality 1 3 ways - 2 of which volition person to spell earlier Governor Gavin Newsom. 

The brother's lawyers person filed a habeas corpus petition successful May 2023 with a 1988 missive Erik wrote to his relative wherever helium referred to the maltreatment from his father. 

A proceeding connected this petition is acceptable for November 26. Another proceeding whitethorn beryllium called to measurement the grounds afterward. 

A 2nd way includes the brothers being resentenced, arsenic Gascón requested successful October. Their resentencing proceeding takes spot December 11. 

The Menendez household has pleaded for the men's contiguous merchandise and asked for the parole process to beryllium skipped. 

But adjacent if the resentencing is agreed to by a judge, the parole process could instrumentality arsenic agelong arsenic a twelvemonth – and immoderate determination successful favour of merchandise could inactive beryllium vetoed by California Governor Gavin Newsom. 

A 3rd pathway to state includes Newsom granting the brothers clemency. 

'What matters are the facts. What matters is justness and fairness,' Newsom antecedently said astir the case. 'Not treating them immoderate worse due to the fact that they’re celebrities, not treating them surely immoderate amended due to the fact that they’re celebrities.' 

The Menendez brothers are presently some locked up astatine the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility successful San Diego, California, wherever both are serving beingness without parole for the shotgun slayings of their parents.

Both admitted to the gruesome killings, but said they snapped aft enduring years of intersexual maltreatment astatine José's hands and did it successful self-defense.

That statement fell level astatine their 1993 trial, with prosecutors successfully arguing that the murders were carried retired for fiscal summation aft the brothers went connected a $700,000 spending spree successful the weeks aft their parents’ murder.

As a result, they were some handed beingness without parole and sent to abstracted prisons - though they yet reunited astatine the San Diego lock-up successful 2018.