Menendez Brothers
Resentencing Listening to Pushed
Geragos Accuses D.A. of Bias, Calls for His Recusal
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The Menendez Brothers resentencing listening to has ended for the day … and won’t be continued on Friday, as initially scheduled.
The following listening to is scheduled for Could 9, and can tackle the admissibility of a threat evaluation report … and the brothers’ protection lawyer Mark Geragos is predicted to file for L.A. County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman to be personally recused from the case. Hochman grew up in Beverly Hills and went to the identical highschool because the Menendez Bros.
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In a information convention after immediately’s listening to, Geragos repeatedly accused the D.A.’s Workplace — and particularly Hochman — of retraumatizing the Menendez household. One member of the family was reportedly hospitalized after crime scene photographs had been proven in court docket on April 11. Bryan Freedman, who represents members of the Menendez household, mentioned he needs to make sure their Marsy’s Legislation rights are revered.
No testimony will likely be heard within the Could 9 listening to, although the household is invited to attend. Whether or not the listening to is open to the general public continues to be being decided. Geragos nonetheless hasn’t seen the threat evaluation report, and is ready to obtain it.
Hochman himself filed a last-minute movement Wednesday night time in L.A. County Superior Court docket to stop immediately’s much-anticipated listening to from going ahead, arguing the court docket wants time to evaluation the California parole board’s threat evaluation report for Erik and Lyle Menendez. The decide rejected that movement and immediately’s listening to went ahead.
As you understand, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s parole board again in February to conduct a threat evaluation of the brothers earlier than any clemency determination could possibly be made.
Newsom plans to make use of the report as a part of a June 13 listening to, through which Erik and Lyle will every seem earlier than the board for his or her particular person evaluations. After the listening to, Newsom will then make his determination on whether or not to grant clemency to the brothers.
Erik and Lyle had been convicted of capturing their mother and father to demise with shotguns of their Beverly Hills house in 1989 and had been finally sentenced to life with out the opportunity of parole.
Regardless of their sentence, the brothers have been actively working the authorized system within the hopes of getting launched from jail, particularly over the previous two years. They’ve filed for resentencing, requested clemency and pushed for a brand new trial primarily based on newly unearthed proof.
