Los Angeles County D.A.
Sorry Menendezes Did not Get Warning About Crime Scene Pictures …
However Hearings Are The place Reality Involves Mild
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The Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace is apologizing to the Menendez household for not giving superior warning that crime scene photographs could be proven at a current listening to … however, they add the selection was made to indicate the total reality.
In a press release to TMZ … the L.A. County D.A.’s Workplace tells us they apologize for the upsetting nature of the crime scene photographs they confirmed — including it wasn’t the workplace’s intention to upset the family members.
Nevertheless, we’re informed these hearings are “intended to be a place where the truth, no matter how painful, is brought to light” … so, the photographs wanted to be proven with a purpose to depict the brutality of the crime.
The D.A.’s workplace places a part of the blame on Erik and Lyle‘s request for clemency … explaining that the movement was at all times sure to “trigger emotions for all those concerned in a case that had lied dormant legally for over 18 years.”
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The workplace notes that motions filed by prosecutors have usually described the killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez … together with how the 2 brothers killed their dad and mom with 13 pictures fired from a shotgun from shut vary and different grisly particulars.
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Both method, the L.A. County D.A’s workplace continues, “To the extent that the photographic depiction of this conduct upset any of the Menendez family members present in court, we apologize for not giving prior warning that the conduct would be described in detail not only in words but also through a crime scene photo.”
The L.A. County D.A.’s Workplace additionally defends the conduct of District Lawyer Nathan Hochman … mentioning he met with greater than two dozen relations of Erik and Lyle for greater than three hours — one thing they declare no prior D.A. has executed for the household in additional than three a long time.
The assertion ends with a blanket set off warning … telling people who find themselves coming to the listening to to “be prepared for some of the difficult details and images surrounding these tragic circumstances.”
The assertion doesn’t embrace a response to the allegation that displaying the crime scene photographs throughout Friday’s resentencing listening to despatched Terry Baralt to the hospital.
As we informed you … the 85-year-old aunt of Erik and Lyle was discovered unresponsive in her lodge room this weekend — and, the household says she’s in crucial situation due to the stress round this trial, significantly concerning the gruseome photographs.
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Bryan Freedman — the lawyer representing the household — slammed prosecutors for displaying these pictures … calling the transfer a “despicable action [that] was a clear violation of Marsy’s law which requires absolute empathy toward victims.”
Mark Geragos — Erik and Lyle’s lawyer who cohosts our “2 Angry Men” podcast — made related statements throughout a information convention Friday after a choose granted Erik and Lyle a resentencing listening to subsequent week.
We have reached out to Freedman and Geragos concerning the D.A.’s workplace’s apology … to date, no phrase again.
