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Fate Brothers Menendez is a step closer to the decision because the possibility of releasing from prison could soon become reality.
The judge will consider the request of the Los Angeles district District, Nathan Hochman to withdraw his predecessor George Gascon, that on Friday on Friday, for days before the hearing to resent the hearing is heard.
The hearing on Friday was set up at 10am local time, when the brothers are expected to appear remotely.
Hochman announced on Wednesday that his office had submitted a response about the replacement matter, saying that he did not agree with the replacement, but ready to move forward. Brothers’ lawyers claimed they should have been convicted murder, not murder, In that case, they would already be released from prison.
Coming to Los Angeles, Nate Hochman, says he did not see any media about the Menndez brothers before taking over the office. (Getty Images)
The Hochman’s office said that after “a thorough and exhaustive examination of over tens of thousands of pages of test transcripts, thousands of prison records and hundreds of hours of recorded testimony of the trial:” His office is ready to move forward with the hearing on the launch of the brothers’ replacement procedure, but requested a brothers from the environment.
Joseph Menendez, who goes by his middle name Lyle, and younger brother Erik Menendez, have been in California prisons since 1996, enduring life sentences without the possibility of conditional discharge for their Parents from 1989. Murder.
Before losing a re -election offer in November, former District Attorney George Gascon asked the court to outraise his brothers to life with a probational discharge instead of the current sentence of life without the possibility of conditional discharge.
Hochman objected to the abolition, but said his office was ready to continue with the replacement hearing, which he said could continue to happen even if the judge agreed to withdraw the Gascon proposal.
California’s criminal defense lawyer Brian Claypool, who is not involved in the case, told Fox News Digital that no matter what came out of the hearing on Friday, the fate of Menendez brothers will be on the referee.
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Lyle, left and Erik Menendez sit with defender Leslie Abramson, right, at the Beverly Hills Municipal Court during the hearing, November 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
“At the end of the day, I think the judge will approve of Hochman’s request to remove Gascon’s proposal to support the replacement, but what we really need to have is the judge of the trial, “explained Claypool.” So, in other words, it doesn’t really matter what he says he’s Hochman’s position or tells Gascon’s decision. Ultimately, it is on this judge to make a replacement decision, no matter what Hochmon asks to be done. “
Two older relatives of the brothers have already given a testimony at hearing in November as a precautionary measure and the only cousin against his brother’s release, their uncle Milton Anderson, died last month at the age of 90.
In accordance with the judgment of the court, the replacement hearing is scheduled for April 17 and 18. If that goes forward, prosecutors expect the defense to invite several members of the Menendez family who support the replacement.
The hearing was delayed due to the influence of recent fires on extensive preparations of parties.
Claypool, based in Los Angeles County, believes he is a hearing of resentment with a “political tug” between Hochman and Government Gavin News, more than anything.
“The reason why I say that Gavin News has already asked the California Committee of Conditional Disposal a few weeks ago, which is called the risk assessment on the Menendez brothers. Why is it important? Because this reports that News is likely to approve of smuggling if this judge does not approve. And in many respects, I believe it is resident funds to be anguish.
The Hochman’s office said, despite “the defense, he claims that the decision was political, such an argument was deprived of his merit.”
“Although this time it was to replace the brothers Menendez, they decided to stubbornly stay down in their over a 30-year-old bunker of lies, fraud and denial.”
“The basis for this withdrawal request is that the proposal of the previous DA did not examine or consider whether the Menendez brothers showed complete insight and took complete responsibility for their crimes continuing for the past 30 years to lie about their claims about self-defense, that is, the fear that their mother and father would kill them in their parents, their father, in 1989, justifying the stabs. Explosion through her mother’s face and shoots to her knees to set it up as a mob kill, “Hochman said.
“As reveals a complete examination of the record, the Menendez brothers have never cleaned up in the last three decades and admitted that they had lied to their self -defense, as well as a submarine, and tried to endure the forgery of their friends for lies, among other things, their father of violent rape of Lyle girls, their home (their home) The godfather, and their home hook, and their homes that tried, and their home encouragement, and their home (their home (their home hook
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The Hochman’s office also told Fox News Digital that it had nothing to do with politics and that “there is no political tug” between the governor. “
“Politics was one of the main driving forces behind the time of the decision of the previous District Prosecutor to file a proposal for a replacement in Menendez, which came 12 days before the election, instead of eight months earlier, when he first received a resentment request,” Hochman said.
“The facts and laws of no politics-now what triggers Hochman’s request to withdraw this proposal as exposed in detail in the response of over 85 pages of March 10, 2025. There is no political move between DA and Governor. That he did his job that included thorough and detailed reviews of facts and law on the Law and Law.
Hochman said it was in court to factate whether “the lack of acceptance of responsibility for their killer actions” was enough to decide whether Menendez brothers represent an unreasonable risk of danger to the community.
“Although this time it is to replace the brothers Menendez, they decided to stubbornly stay down in their over 30-year-old bunker lies, fraud and denial,” Hochman said.
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Claypool said that he believed Hochman deep down knows that he would lose this battle because of the “public feeling that flows in favor of getting Menendez brothers a second chance.”
“Hochman has to go out and strongly oppose it, because it’s his mantra. That’s his campaign message, but I think he knew deep down that it was not about a victory or a loss right now, for Hochman, but where political stands on this issue,” Claypool shared.
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Justice for the Erik and Lyle coalition, the initiative led by a family that is committed to release Erik and Lyle Menendez, announced a statement before the hearing on Friday, saying that “they were convinced that legal standards, not politics, would overcome because the judge considers Hochman’s request for a reversal.”
“Erik and Lyle apologized, took responsibility and expressed sincere remorse, over and over, without a subjugated motive besides growing, maturing and rehabilitation,” said Tamara Goodell, cousin Erika and Lylle Menendez. “They recognize the broad influence that their actions have on us, their family. Since then, we have seen their relentless commitment to emotional growth, earning degrees and rising those around them. It is the definition of rehabilitation in my eyes.”
Hochman earlier ABC News said To consider resentment “if they honestly and unambiguously admit, for the first time after more than 30 years, the whole range of their criminal activity and all the lies they said about it.”
The District State Attorney wrote in his proposal to believe that Menendez brothers “repeatedly lied to the case, their parents and their interactions with witnesses.”
The brothers claim that in self-defense, they were firing a father, former RCA Records CEO Jose Menendez, claiming that they thought they would kill them after warning him that they were planning to expose him as a abuser of sex for children. They also killed their mother, Mary “Kitty” Menendez, who was sitting next to Jose’s meal ice cream in her Beverly Hills living room When they opened the fire.
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This combination of two photos of reservations provided by the California repair department shows Erik Menendez, left and Lyle Menendez. (California Division for AP, File Corrections)
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Their first trial ended in trial, when the jurors could not arrange their destiny. After the second trial in the mid-1990s, which excluded some of their evidence of alleged sexual abuse, the jurors agreed with the prosecutors that their motive was greed.
If the judge decides to resent the Menendez brothers, then they will consider their release on the State Committee for Conditional Freedom.
He is already planning to appear before the Committee on June 13, as part of a comprehensive report on the risk assessment he ordered News, which considers the brothers’ request – a separate potential path to freedom.
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“Be careful about what you want, because I think in the end the way it gets will be made, the Menendez brothers are likely to be approved or re -discharged or grace from Newsom,” Claypool said.
Fox News Digital addressed Newsom’s office and lawyers of the Menendez brothers for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Ashley Pope contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. It covers topics, including missing persons, murders, national cases of crime, illegal immigration and more. Tips and ideas of the story can be sent to Stepheny.price@fox.com
