LA District Attorney calls for delays for the Menendez brothers’ res judge
According to the report, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office filed a request late Wednesday to delay hearings between Eric and Lyle Menendez.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman’s office said in a filing that the Res hearings set for Thursday and Friday should be held back until the court obtains a copy of the brother’s comprehensive risk assessment completed by the state prison and parole officer. This was reported by NBC News.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office told Fox News that a comprehensive risk assessment is underway and is expected to be completed on June 13, 2025. Newsom’s Office said it has notified Judge Michael Jessick of the status of the report.
It was not immediately clear whether the DA submission would affect Thursday’s hearing.
Lyle, left, Eric Menendez sits with Beverly Hills City Court defense attorney Leslie Abramson during the hearing on November 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick UT)
Menendez brothers In a recent interview with TMZ, we discussed their push to freedom decades after the brutal murder of their parents.
This feature includes:TMZ gift: Brothers Menendez: Prison interview: “Both brothers were interviewed to discuss how prisons have changed and how they imagine life outside the prison walls.
“We’re very hopeful. We did what we could over the time we had,” Lyle Menendez said in an interview.
“Hope for the future is like new to us,” he continued.
The scene then shows the young Eric and Lyle and the horrible crime scene they left behind Beverly Hills Mansion After killing his parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989.
“It was a near-perfect murder,” said Detective Tom Reinhan, a former Beverly Hills police.
Now, more than 35 years later, the fate of the brothers is in the hands of a Los Angeles County judge. Legal experts say you have to answer two simple questions.
Rinhan clearly said he wouldn’t trust them, and what they did was “the worst, most vicious murder” he ever saw.
This combination of two booking photos provided by the California Department of Corrections shows Eric Menendez, left, Lyle Menendez. (Califia section correction section via AP, file)
“They are two of the most skilled liars, and their notary stand out from other inmates in similar circumstances,” Reinhan said. “If things aren’t going, they can do this again.”
Hochman also said he disagrees. Look at the res But we are ready to move forward.
Hochman said it would be up to the court to consider whether “the lack of acceptance of liability for their murder” is sufficient to determine whether the Menendez brothers pose an unfair risk to the community.
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“This path to res has been offered to the Menendez brothers, but they have chosen to stubbornly lurk in the bunkers of lies, deceit, and denials over the age of 30,” Hochman said.
However, the Menendez brothers’ families and other supporters argued that they paid their dues and changed.
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The rapper X-Red, a former prisoner who served in the rapper and Eric for 18 years, said they were not in prison, claiming that their neighbor’s dogs are more dangerous than the Menendez brothers.
He added that they helped him and many others leave prison and rehabilitate in society.
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“The fact that they did all this without getting anything in return tells a lot,” the rapper said.
Lyle said he and Eric developed peace and perseverance that most people can’t understand.
Eric admitted that they were “spoiled brats” and that he suffered from serious anxiety issues. He said he wanted to be an advocate for other sexually abused victims, saying “no one has to be locked up” like he did.
Both Lyle and Eric Menendez claimed in documentaries and social media that their father was sexually abusing him; Different stories of murder More than the stories their lawyers told in the 1990s.
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In November 1989, on the stairs of the Beverly Hills house, Eric and Lyle, the Menendez brothers. (Ronald L. Sobre/Los Angeles Times)
They claim that they killed their parents in self-defense.
Their first trial ended with cheating in which the ju judges failed to agree with their fate. After the second trial in the mid-1990s Suspicion of sexual abuse Excluded, the ju judge agreed to the prosecutor that their motive was greedy.
If a judge decides to resent Menendez’s brothers, it will then be up to the state’s parole board to consider their release.
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They were under 26 years old at the time of the murder, so if they sentenced a new 50-year sentence under current California law, they would be immediately subject to a parole hearing.
They will already be appearing before the board of directors as part of a comprehensive risk assessment report ordered by Newsom, another potential path from prison, as part of a comprehensive risk assessment report considering the demand for siblings’ generosity.
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Michael Ruiz of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, murder, national crime cases, illegal immigration and more. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com