Case Menendez Brothers: Da asks the Court to attract a hating motion, calling a self -defense claim ‘lies’

Los Angeles District Attorney County Nathan Hochman said on Monday that he asked the court to attract the Mosi District lawyer to hate Lyle and Erik Menendez, mentioning the claims of self-defense from Litani “Litani” lies. “

“We are ready to go forward” with trials about their revenge case, Hochman said at the Monday press conference. “However, we ask the court to attract the motion of previous district lawyers to hate, because we believe there are legal reasons and the interests of justice justify the withdrawal.”

Revenge trial was determined for March 20 and 21.

The request to attract a hating motion is “based on the current situation of the current records and failures and continuously to the brothers and sisters to show full insight and accept full responsibility for their murder,” Hochman said in a statement. “If they finally advance and firmly and sincerely recognize and fully accept responsibilities for their defense lies and the efforts of the suborning oaths they take, then the court must weigh new insights like that in rehabilitation and revenge analysis-as well as people.”

Hochman said his decision came after reviewing the trial transcript from the two trials, prison records and video recording of the trial testimony, as well as meeting with family members of Menendez, defenders and prosecutors previous prosecutors.

Hochman emphasized Premissue, noted brothers and sisters went to San Diego a few days before the murder to buy weapons with fake IDs and on the night of the murder, they planned alibis and went to buy movie tickets, he said.

After Jose and Kitty Menendez were shot fatal, the brothers allegedly shot them on the knees to be suspected of trying to make the murder look like a gang shooting, Hochman said.

Brothers “also have the presence of thoughts to take all the shredded shells” to try to hide their fingerprints, and then they throw away their bloody clothes and weapons, Hochman said.

Hochman said the brothers said 20 lies and recognized four; He said 16 lies remained “not recognized.”

Hochman emphasized that brothers and sisters changed their stories several times.

The brothers initially expressed their innocent and said that the murder might be a hit mafia.

The truth about the brothers and sisters who were responsible came after Erik Menendez confessed to his therapist and the recognition record was handed over to the police.

“They are sure, not only the media, not only the police, but their families and their friends that they are 100% innocent from this crime, until finally these tapes come out,” Hochman said.

“The next iteration of the story” is when Lyle Menendez is suspected of asking his girlfriend to claim Jose Menendez anesthetizes and raped him, Hochman said.

The brothers then said Erik Menendez was raped by their father and Lyle Menendez was raped by their mother, he said.

At the trial, the brothers claimed to defend themselves, saying that they suffered sexual harassment from their father and believe their parents would kill them.

But Hochman said on Monday that “Self -defense is fabricated.”

“Brothers and sisters have never been clean and acknowledge that they lie about their self-defense and subdue incidental oaths and try to subdue incidental oaths by their friends for lies, among others, from their father rudely raping Lyle’s girlfriend, their mother poisoned the family, and their efforts to get a gun on the day before the driving,” Da said.

The court needs to “analyze whether the lack of full insight of brothers and sisters and lack of full responsibility for their murder to overcome … other factors that justify hatred such as long time in prison, their age at the time of murder, and supporting in matters experienced by murder and sexual harassment they experience, extensive rehabilitation effort

Lyle and Erik Menendez serve life without the possibility of parole.

In October, La County District Prosecutor George Gascón announced that he supported hatred for brothers and sisters. Gascón recommends their life sentence without the possibility of parole to be deleted, and says they must be punished for murder, which will be a sentence of 50 years for life. Because the two siblings are under 26 years at the time of crime, they will qualify for immediate parole with new punishment.

The DA office says recommendations that hate calculating many factors, including rehabilitation in prison and harassment or trauma that contributes to the crime. Gascón praised the work carried out by Lyle and Erik Menendez behind bars to rehabilitate themselves and help other inmates.

A few weeks after Gascón’s announcement, he lost the race to re -election to Hochman.

When Hochman came to the office on December 3, he promised to review all facts before reaching his own decision. He said that the effort included speaking to all prosecutors and defenders’ lawyers involved and reviewed thousands of court pages, trial transcripts, and secret prison records.

Hochman’s announcement on Monday came a few days after one of the cousins ​​of brothers, Tamara Goodell, slammed in a letter to the Civil Rights Division of the US Prosecutor’s Office.

Goodell accused Hochman of being “hostile, underestimating, and patronizing” during two meetings in January with family members who wanted brothers to be released. He said “The lack of compassion is very clear, and the family feels not only ignored but further intimidated and revised.”

Goodell wants Hochman to be deleted and the case is handed over to the Attorney General’s Office.

This case originated in 1989, when Lyle Menendez, at that time 21, and Erik Menendez, who was 18 years old, shot and killed their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez, at the house of the Beverly Hills family.

Their first court ended with the cancellation of the trial. Lyle and Erik Menendez were punished in 1996 after their second trial.

The brothers were sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life in succession -according to the possibility of parole.

Besides hating, brothers and sisters have pursued two other paths towards freedom.

One of them is their Habeas Corpus petition, which they submitted in 2023 to review two new evidences that were not presented at the trial: The letter written by Erik Menendez to his cousin eight months before the murder detailed his alleged harassment from his father, and the accusation of a former band member Boy revealed in 2023 that he was raped by Jose Menendez.

Hochman announced in February that he asked the court to deny the petition of Habeas Corpus, with the reason that the new evidence could not be trusted or acceptable.

The third way to freedom is through your request for clemency, which has been handed over to Governor California Gavin Newsom.

On February 26, Newsom announced that he ordered a parole to conduct an investigation of “comprehensive risk assessment” 90 days of whether brothers raised “unreasonable risks for the public” if they were given clemency and released.

“There is no guarantee of the results here,” Newsom said. “But this process only gives more transparency … and gives us more complete tests before I make determination for clemency.”

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