Los Angeles County D.A.
Sorry Menendezes Did not Get Warning About Crime Scene Images …
However Hearings Are The place Fact Involves Gentle
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The Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace is apologizing to the Menendez household for not giving superior warning that crime scene photographs could be proven at a latest listening to … however, they add the selection was made to indicate the total reality.
In an announcement to TMZ … the L.A. County D.A.’s Workplace tells us they apologize for the upsetting nature of the crime scene photographs they confirmed — including it wasn’t the workplace’s intention to upset the family members.
Nonetheless, we’re advised these hearings are “meant to be a spot the place the reality, regardless of how painful, is dropped at gentle” … so, the photographs wanted to be proven so as to depict the brutality of the crime.
The D.A.’s workplace places a part of the blame on Erik and Lyle‘s request for clemency … explaining that the movement was at all times sure to “set off feelings for all these involved in a case that had lied dormant legally for over 18 years.”
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The workplace notes that motions filed by prosecutors have usually described the killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez … together with how the 2 brothers killed their mother and father with 13 pictures fired from a shotgun from shut vary and different grisly particulars.
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Both method, the L.A. County D.A’s workplace continues, “To the extent that the photographic depiction of this conduct upset any of the Menendez relations current in court docket, we apologize for not giving prior warning that the conduct could be described intimately not solely in phrases but additionally by against the law scene picture.”
The L.A. County D.A.’s Workplace additionally defends the conduct of District Lawyer Nathan Hochman … mentioning he met with greater than two dozen relations of Erik and Lyle for greater than three hours — one thing they declare no prior D.A. has performed for the household in additional than three many years.
The assertion ends with a blanket set off warning … telling people who find themselves coming to the listening to to “be ready for a number of the tough particulars and pictures surrounding these tragic circumstances.”
The assertion doesn’t embrace a response to the allegation that exhibiting the crime scene photographs throughout Friday’s resentencing listening to despatched Terry Baralt to the hospital.
As we advised you … the 85-year-old aunt of Erik and Lyle was found unresponsive in her resort room this weekend — and, the household says she’s in vital situation due to the stress round this trial, notably relating to the gruseome photographs.
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Bryan Freedman — the legal professional representing the household — slammed prosecutors for exhibiting these photos … calling the transfer a “despicable motion [that] was a transparent violation of Marsy’s legislation which requires absolute empathy towards victims.”
Mark Geragos — Erik and Lyle’s legal professional who cohosts our “2 Angry Men” podcast — made comparable statements throughout a information convention Friday after a choose granted Erik and Lyle a resentencing hearing subsequent week.
We have reached out to Freedman and Geragos concerning the D.A.’s workplace’s apology … to date, no phrase again.
