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Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman met Friday with the family of Lyle and Eric Menendez as the new police chief resents the brothers.
The meeting and subsequent press conference came after the Menendez family demanded a new sentence that “reflects Eric and Lyle’s abuse, trauma and demonstrated rehabilitation over the past 35 years.”
“As we prepare to meet with DA Hochman, our family hopes to have an open and fair discussion,” the family said in a statement released Thursday night ahead of the meeting with Hochman. “Despite the abuse they endured as children and the injustice of their current sentence, Eric and Lyle Menendez have spent the past three decades taking responsibility for their actions and contributing positively to their community through leadership and rehabilitation.” .
The brothers are serving life sentences without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents in Beverly Hills, California. The case returned to the national spotlight after former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon expressed his support for the insult.
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Lyle (left) and Eric (right) are pictured in photos from 2023. After several years of separation, they were moved into the same housing at the Richard J. Penitentiary. Donovan in San Diego in 2018, according to the New York Daily News. (California Department of Corrections)
Lyle, left, and Eric Menendez sit with defense attorney Leslie Abramson, right, in Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing on November 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Uth)
The newly sworn in at the press conference district attorney said the meeting with the family was “productive.”
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“It was a very productive session where they gave me all of their thoughts on what should happen in this case, their experiences that they wanted to share, the directions that they wanted this case to go,” Hochman said. . “It was a very productive conversation for several hours.”
Nathan Hochman speaks during a news conference in Los Angeles on September 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
The district attorney said his office is working diligently to review thousands of pages of records and court records in the case.
“Now the indictment hearing is scheduled for January 30 and 31. This is the date we are working towards. And if that changes, we will definitely let you know,” he said. “We will continue this difficult but important work of fact-checking the law in order to make the right decision in this case.”
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Hochman said his office expects to make a decision by the Jan. 30 hearing date.
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Hochman did not reveal what he was talking about with familystating that it was an “informal conversation off the record”.
“We are going to take the time necessary to make this decision,” he said. “I don’t have a lot of free time in my life right now, but that’s okay. I didn’t sign up for a job that said I would have a lot of free time.’
