On his new podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced on Tuesday that the Menendez brothers can have parole board hearings in mid-June for the governor’s place of work to decide whether or not they will have to be granted clemency.
Whilst discussing Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman’s contemporary opposition to the Menendez brothers’ criminal fight for re-sentencing, Newsom introduced that Lyle and Erik Menendez will move earlier than the California Board of Parole Hearings in my view on June 13 and plead for clemency from the governor.
The brothers are in jail for killing their folks in 1989.
“The DA now, the brand new DA, is pulling again recommending from the Menendez brothers to be re-sentenced,” Newsom stated on his “That is Gavin Newsom” podcast. “Nevertheless it does not have an effect on the processes underway, that overview for clemency in my place of work or the unbiased chance overview that can be concluded on June 13 through the Board of Parole Hearings. And I will repeat that, on June 13, each Lyle and Eric Menendez independently can have their ultimate listening to.”
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Lyle and Erik Menendez are noticed as younger males with their mugshots overlayed. The brothers are lately serving existence sentences for the murders in their folks, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, in 1996. (Ronald L. Soble/Los Angeles Occasions by means of Getty Photographs)
Newsom defined that once the parole board listening to, a record can be submitted to his place of work for attention in deciding whether or not he will have to trip the brothers’ sentences.
“A record then can be submitted to me at the thirteenth of June for attention,” Newsom stated. “We will be able to publish that report back to the pass judgement on for the re-sentencing, and that can weigh into our unbiased research of whether or not or to not transfer ahead with the clemency utility to beef up a commutation of this example.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a information convention in Sacramento, California, on Thursday, March 16, 2023. (AP Picture/Wealthy Pedroncelli)
The brothers have been each and every convicted of 2 counts of first-degree homicide within the Aug. 20, 1989 killing in their folks, José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez, and have been sentenced to existence in jail.
A contemporary California legislation made re-sentencing hearings a chance, and excluding the June parole board listening to, the brothers are scheduled for a March 20 and 21 re-sentencing listening to. Earlier than that, the brothers had exhausted all criminal avenues for freedom.
The listening to used to be granted through former District Legal professional George Gascon.
On Monday, Hochman submitted an 88-page courtroom submitting asking a pass judgement on to rescind the preliminary order for the re-sentencing listening to, arguing that the brothers have proven little contrition and are unwilling to take accountability for the killings.
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Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman talks concerning the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez for the murders in their folks many years in the past all the way through a information convention in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Picture/Damian Dovarganes)
“As a complete exam of the file unearths, the Menendez brothers have by no means come blank and admitted that they lied about their self-defense in addition to suborned perjury and tried to suborn perjury through their pals for the lies, amongst others, in their father violently raping Lyle’s female friend, their mom poisoning the circle of relatives, and their try to get a handgun the day earlier than the murders,” Hochman stated.
The brothers’ legal professional Mark Geragos attacked Hochman all the way through a Tuesday interview on “Nowadays.”
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This mix of 2 reserving footage equipped through the California Division of Corrections presentations Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez. (California Dept. of Corrections by means of AP, Record)
“This DA had made up his thoughts,” he stated. “Thoughts you, there have been 22 members of the family who signed on, met with the DA’s place of work, advised them ‘prevent re-traumatizing us.’ Shall we inform at that assembly that he had little interest in that.”
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“They’re now not within the sufferers,” stated Geragos, relating to members of the family of the Menendez brothers. “They didn’t let the sufferers know that they have been going to make this resolution.”
“He’s virtually serially abusing them together with his lies and his litany of lies,” he stated.
Within the rapid aftermath of the killings, the brothers claimed that their folks have been sufferers of a mafia hit. When it changed into transparent that they have been chargeable for the killings, they argued that they acted in self-defense after a life-time of bodily and sexual abuse through their folks.
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Their first trial, which spanned from 1993 to 1994, led to a mistrial. They have been retried and located responsible in 1996.
Fox Information Virtual reached out to Newsom, Hochman and Geragos for remark.
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this record.