Key Prosecutor Says Menendez Brothers Could Have Different Fates as Resentencing Hearing Looms

Recently, a California prosecutor mentioned that Lyle and Erik Menendez’s legal matters are being handled individually while they attempt to obtain clemency or a new sentencing for murdering their parents in 1989.

Los Angeles District Attorney, Nathan Hochman, informed NBC that he is reviewing numerous prison documents pertaining to the Menendez case. Hochman took over from Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, who had proposed that the brothers receive a resentencing to 50 years in prison, consequently allowing them to be considered for parole.

READ: Governor Halts Menendez Brothers’ Clemency Bid After Key Prosecutor Loses Re-Election

Prior to his defeat in the re-election, Gascón was in favor of the Menendez brothers’ plea for clemency. Nonetheless, Governor Gavin Newsom postponed the clemency request following Gascón’s loss to Hochman, who has not disclosed his stance on a new sentence or clemency for the siblings.

Variety reported that since taking office, Hochman removed two deputy district attorneys who were heavily involved in the Menendez brothers’ resentencing bid. Nancy Theberge allegedly received notice that she would be involuntarily transferred to the office of the Alternate Public Defender, while Brock Lunsford will be moved out of the prosecutor’s post-conviction unit. However, Lunsford will remain in the prosecutor’s office in some capacity.

In 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez, then 18 and 21, purchased two shotguns with cash and used them to kill their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home. Investigators originally suspected the mafia was behind the slayings. However, a break in the case occurred in 1990 when Erik Menendez confessed to a therapist.

Evidence of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s father molesting them was presented at their first trial — which ended with a hung jury. However, those details were not as prominent during the second trial, resulting in their convictions.

In an email obtained by TMZ, Bryan Freedman, who is representing 20 relatives of the victims, admonished Hochman for only talking with one family member. Freedman claimed the family member who spoke with Hochman is against resentencing for the Menendez brothers. Their hearing is scheduled for January 30 and 31, 2025.

“Instead of wanting to meet with the victims family members that can share their own personal experiences of years watching and speaking directly with Lyle and Erik, you chose to meet with Milton Anderson’s attorney first … It does not make any sense to my client,” Freedman allegedly wrote to Hochman. “Anderson has no personal knowledge of how Lyle and Erik have behaved while incarcerated nor can he opine on whether they are a threat to society since he has not interacted with them in any way.”

[Feature Photo: California Department of Corrections]

 

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