Prosecutors who pushed Menendez brothers resentencing plan to sue new DA for ‘retaliation,’ alleged demotions

Two Los Angeles County prosecutors who advocated for the Menendez brothers' merchandise from situation assertion they were retaliated against by caller Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.

Los Angeles County prosecutors Nancy Theberge and Brock Lunsford are seeking $5.25 cardinal each successful damages, according to filings obtained by Fox News Digital. They assertion their careers and reputations person been affected by their section transfers astatine the extremity of past year.

The brace some worked successful the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office nether erstwhile DA George Gascón, who mislaid his re-election bid successful November to Hochman, and publically supported the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez. Last October, Theberge and Lunsford drafted the 57-page petition arguing that the brothers had been rehabilitated. They besides appeared astatine the Oct. 24 property conference, erstwhile then-DA Gascón announced helium would inquire a tribunal to resentence the brothers.

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Following the alteration astatine the top, the brace accidental they experienced swift retaliation and were promptly demoted.

"They were demoted lone a mates weeks aft the caller medication came into office," Justin Shegerian, the lawyer representing Lunsford and Theberge, told People magazine. "So their demotion thereafter made them consciousness similar they were being retaliated against for their advocating for the resentencing of the Menendez brothers. They're inactive employed, but, of course, their careers person been wholly derailed."

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Lunsford, the filing said, was "stripped of each supervisory responsibilities." He was reassigned arsenic of Dec. 14 arsenic a calendar lawyer successful Department T of the Norwalk Courthouse, "a presumption helium had held years earlier with nary opportunities for promotion oregon advancement," the filing said.

Theberge was sent backmost to the alternate nationalist defender’s office, which the filing described arsenic "a wide demotion."

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The Los Angeles Times noted that it is not uncommon for a displacement successful the unit erstwhile a caller DA takes office, but Lunsford and Theberge claimed that their reassignments were discriminatory. 

Newly elected Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman appears astatine Crypto.com Arena successful November. ( Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

In a connection obtained by Variety, the Menendez household expressed their enactment for Theberge and Lunsford.

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"The determination to region these dedicated prosecutors from the case, however, underscored precisely what we feared, that governmental influences mightiness overshadow justice," the household said. "D.A. Hochman campaigned connected a committedness to region authorities from prosecutorial decisions and to cautiously measurement the nuances and facts of each lawsuit nether his review. We proceed to clasp connected to anticipation that helium volition grant this committedness arsenic helium considers his proposal for Erik and Lyle’s resentencing."

Tammi Menendez, Erik Menendez' wife, and Erik Menendez' stepdaughter locomotion adjacent the Van Nuys Courthouse West, connected the time of a proceeding successful the lawsuit of Erik and Lyle Menendez connected whether to reconsider the first-degree condemnation of the Menendez brothers successful Los Angeles connected Nov. 25, 2024. (REUTERS/Daniel Cole)

Hochman has yet to accidental whether helium volition backmost the enactment of his predecessor – but said helium would reappraisal the lawsuit successful detail.

The infamous lawsuit dates backmost to 1989 erstwhile Lyle, 21, and Erik, 18, fatally changeable their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, successful their Beverly Hills mansion.

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During their archetypal trial, the defence claimed the brothers acted successful self-defense aft enduring years of intersexual maltreatment by their father. Prosecutors, however, argued that their motive was fiscal gain. A resentencing proceeding for the Menendez brothers begins connected March 20.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman talks astir the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez for the murders of their parents decades agone during a quality league successful downtown Los Angeles connected Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Shegerian alleged that Theberge and Lunsford experienced "politically motivated" retaliation.

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"Nancy and Brock are committed nationalist servants and accomplished attorneys who followed the instrumentality — the instrumentality they believed required them to advocator for the resentencing of the Menendez brothers," Shegerian told Fox News Digital. "The harassment and retaliation that followed was politically motivated, illegal, and devastating."

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Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for comment.