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District State Attorney Los Angeles Nathan Hochman responded to a request for rejection in the event of replacing convicted killers of Erik and Lyle Menendez, calling the move a “drastic and desperate step”.
Hochman submitted an answer on Friday, claiming that Brothers Menendez They try to force the refusal simply because they are dissatisfied with the entire attitude of the district prosecutor about the replacement.
“In opposition, the District Prosecutor’s Office claimed that in a” drastic and desperate step, the defense decided to “weaken the central question of replacement” and to express an argument “deprived of credit” to throw out the entire district lawyer, “Hochman said.” The entire defensive argument for rejection is reduced to a defense that is not satisfied with the current attitude of the District Prosecutor. Although this desperate argument may act in an interview with the press, it fails in court based on the opposing system of justice. “
Lawyer Mark Geragos, who represents the brothers Menendez, wrote in the proposal on April 25 that Hochman should be taken out of “conflict of interest”. In this submission, Geragos wrote that Hochman “has a very different opinion” about renunciation.
Los Angeles County that Nate Hochman responded to a proposal to rejection of the Menendez brothers. (Getty Images)
“In the opinion of the Prosecutor’s Office, there was no sexual abuse at all. Outratizing is not appropriate, because although the defendants have admitted the shooting for decades, they continue to maintain (such as the trial) that they have been sexually abused by children,” Geragos wrote. “According to the opinion of the District Prosecutor, there may be no rehabilitation unless the accused not only recognizes the shooting, but the denying of the confirmed history of sexual abuse is not denied, which is why the first juries reached the judgments evenly divided between the murder and the murder.”
“Because the record shows a conflict that makes him unlikely that Erik and Lyle can get a fair hearing, rejection is correct,” he added.
Menendez brothers replace hopes depend on a key discussion on court in the case of murder
This combination of two photos of reservations provided by the California repair department shows Erika Menendez and Lyle Menendez. (California Division for AP, File Corrections)
The proposal of the Menendez brothers for Hochman’s rejection is focused on a lawyer who recently hired Hochman. After the former Los Angeles District Prosecutor George Gascon announced that he was considering a request to replace Menendez brothers, 20 family members met with deputies of district lawyers Nancy Theberge and Brock Lunsford and discussed their support for replacement.
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One family member, however, opposed the resentment and submitted an amicus submission to his lawyer Kathleen Cady.
When Hochman won the election against Gascon, Geragos claimed that Theberge and Lunsford were intentionally awarded because they thought they were sympathetic to Menendez brothers. Geragos also claimed that Hochman hired Cady, a lawyer who represented the only member of the Menendez family against the replacement, in order to run the Victims’ Lawyer’s Office.
The hearing is scheduled for Friday, where he will chair the Los Angeles Michael Jesic court judge.
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Los Angeles District Prosecutor Nathan Hochman talks about the replacement of Erika and Lyle Menendez for the killings of their parents decades ago during a press conference at Los Angeles Center on Friday, January 3, 2025. (Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo)
The Menendez brothers currently withstand a lifetime penalty without conditional freedom after Killing parentsMary “Kitty” Menendez and Jose Menendez, in 1989 after their father allegedly sexually abused them.
Fox News Digital addressed Geragos for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Peter D’AbroSca contributed to this report.
