Just weeks before the resentencing hearing, Nathan Hochman, the district attorney for New LA, has acknowledged that he will not be viewing the Menendez Brothers documentary on Netflix.
According to Knewz.com, Erik and Lyle Menendezi’s defense team is currently looking at ways to rescue the brothers after they were imprisoned for thirty years for the heinous murder of their parents.
Hochman, 60, talked about the enormous following the Menendez brothers have amassed since the debut of the Netflix documentary and the television series Monsters.
“I think those fans don’t fully understand the case from decades ago,” said the incoming LA District Attorney.
Hochman stated that he intends to thoroughly examine the well-known case when he officially assumes office on December 3.
He stated: “I look forward to putting in the hard work to thoroughly review the facts and law of the Menendez case, including reviewing the confidential prison files, the transcripts of the two trials, and the voluminous exhibits as well as speaking with the prosecutors, defense attorneys and victim family members.”
He continued: “This is the same type of rigorous analysis I have done throughout my 34-year career in criminal justice as a prosecutor and defense counsel and the same type of thorough review that I will give to all cases regardless of media attention.”
He will not be using the Netflix series or the documentary to assist him as he thoroughly examines the case.
“I didn’t want to see them,” he said to The Daily Beast. What’s the point? I would prefer to read the book.
Millions of people watched the trial from all across the world more than thirty years ago, and the case became well-known globally.
Before he continued, Hochman acknowledged that he could only recall a few specifics of the case: “Any time a particular case gets this level of attention, it’s even that more important to get it right.”
Erik and Lyle, who have been incarcerated for almost 35 years for the murders of their parents, Jos and Kitty Menendez, were recommended to be resentenced in October by then-Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc.
He said that on Friday, he would suggest to the court that the brothers’ life sentence be revoked, making them instantly eligible for release.
Family members urged that authorities reexamine the case when fresh evidence was found in recent months.
When Erik and Lyle shot their parents fourteen times inside their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, they were eighteen and twenty-one years old, respectively.
After the first trial ended in a mistrial, the two were given life sentences without the possibility of release at their second trial in 1996.
According to their lawyer, the brothers killed both of their parents in self-defense after their father reportedly mistreated them.
Neither brother ever disputed carrying out the heinous killings.
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