Huge day for Erik and Lyle Menendez … kinfolk are set to fulfill with new Los Angeles District Legal professional Nathan Hochman to debate resentencing the brothers for the infamous murders of their dad and mom a long time in the past.
Twenty relations of Jose and Kitty Menendez — who had been shot-gunned to demise by their kids in 1989 — will sit down as we speak with Hochman to ask the DA for a diminished sentence for Erik and Lyle.
As you recognize, the brothers had been convicted of the slayings of their second trial in 1996 and sentenced to life with out parole. Their first trial led to a mistrial.
Throughout as we speak’s assembly, the relations will communicate in assist of “a resentencing course of that displays Erik and Lyle’s abuse, trauma, and demonstrated rehabilitation during the last 35 years.”
The household additionally notes Lyle and Erik have spent a long time behind bars “taking accountability for his or her actions and contributing positively to their neighborhood via immense private progress.”
Again in October, then-LA D.A. George Gascon held a press convention asserting he would ask a choose to resentence the brothers.
However Gascon misplaced his bid for reelection to Hochman, who has not but stated what his place might be on resentencing.
The household’s attorneys slammed Hochman late final 12 months … for assembly with the lawyer of the one relations who opposes the brothers’ launch.
A listening to is ready for later this month. Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, will ask for not simply his shoppers to be resentenced … he’ll ask the choose to alter the conviction from homicide to manslaughter, which might immediately free Erik and Lyle.
