Menendez Brothers
Resentencing Listening to Ends
… With Protection Demanding Threat Evaluation Report
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The Menendez Brothers resentencing listening to has ended for the day … and won’t be continued on Friday, as initially scheduled.
The following listening to is scheduled for Could 9, and can deal with the admissibility of a danger evaluation report … and the brothers’ protection lawyer Mark Geragos is anticipated to file for L.A. County District Lawyer Nathan Hochman to be personally recused from the case. Hochman grew up in Beverly Hills and went to the identical highschool because the Menendez Bros.
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No testimony might be heard within the Could 9 listening to, although the household is invited to attend. Whether or not the listening to is open to the general public continues to be being decided.
Geragos nonetheless hasn’t seen the risk assessment report, and is ready to obtain it … that is why he did not need to proceed this week’s listening to. He stated in court docket he would not need to re-traumatize the household, and accused Hochman of bias within the case.
Hochman himself filed a last-minute motion Wednesday night time in L.A. County Superior Court docket to stop as we speak’s much-anticipated listening to from going ahead, arguing the court docket wants time to overview the California parole board’s danger evaluation report for Erik and Lyle Menendez. The choose rejected that movement and as we speak’s listening to went ahead.
As you already know, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s parole board again in February to conduct a danger evaluation of the brothers earlier than any clemency determination may very well be made.
Newsom plans to make use of the report as a part of a June 13 listening to, through which Erik and Lyle will every appear before the board for his or her particular person critiques. After the listening to, Newsom will then make his determination on whether or not to grant clemency to the brothers.
Erik and Lyle have been convicted of taking pictures their mother and father to dying with shotguns of their Beverly Hills dwelling in 1989 and have been finally sentenced to life with out the potential of parole.
Regardless of their sentence, the brothers have been actively working the authorized system within the hopes of getting launched from jail, particularly over the previous two years. They’ve filed for resentencing, requested clemency and pushed for a brand new trial based mostly on newly unearthed proof.
