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Menendez brothers case: LA DA opposes freeing brothers, but resentencing hearing to move forward

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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said 
Monday he's asking the court to withdraw the previous district attorney's 
motion for resentencing for the Menendez brothers, calling the brothers' 
claims of self-defense "lies."

"Our position is that they shouldn't get out of jail," Hochman said at a 
news conference Monday. "We bring that position to the court. The court 
can agree with it, the court can disagree with it or modify it in some 
respect."

Hochman said his office is "prepared to go forward" with the hearing 
regarding their resentencing case.

The hearing is set for March 20 and 21 for the brothers, who are serving 
life without the possibility of parole for the 1989 shotgun murders of 
their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez.

Hochman argued that because the "brothers persist in telling these lies 
for the last...over 30 years about their self-defense defense and persist 
in insisting that they did not suborn any perjury or attempt to suborn 
perjury, then they do not meet the standards for resentencing. They do not 
meet the standards for rehabilitation."

"If the Menendez brothers, at some point, unequivocally, sincerely and 
fully accept complete responsibility for all their criminal actions, 
acknowledge that the self-defense defense was phony and their parents 
weren't going to kill them ... and finally come clean with the court, with 
the public, with the DA's office, with their own family members and 
acknowledge all these lies ... in the future, the court can weigh these 
new insights into making a determination as to whether they now qualify 
for rehabilitation and re-sentencing. And the (DA's office) will do the 
same," Hochman said.

The DA said his decision comes after reviewing trial transcripts, prison 
records and videotaped trial testimony, as well as meeting with Menendez 
family members, defense attorneys and past prosecutors.

https://abc7.com/post/menendez-brothers-case-la-district-attorney-hochman-
provide-update-lyle-erik-news-conference/16000099/

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