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How the Change of Los Angeles County's District Attorney Will Impact the Menendez Brothers' Case
Eric Menendez and Lyle Menendez’s combat for state has a caller development.
Following Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s efforts to person the brothers resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the lawsuit volition beryllium sent backmost to the D.A.’s office. He explained that the determination to determination guardant connected resentencing efforts volition prevarication successful the hands of Gascón’s successor, erstwhile U.S. Assistant Attorney General Nathan Hochman, who was elected to instrumentality implicit arsenic District Attorney starting connected Dec. 2.
“The Governor respects the relation of the District Attorney successful ensuring justness is served and recognizes that voters person entrusted District Attorney-elect Hochman to transportation retired this responsibility,” Newsom’s bureau said Nov. 18 successful a connection obtained by NBC News. “The Governor volition defer to the D.A.-elect's reappraisal and investigation of the Menendez lawsuit anterior to making immoderate clemency decisions.”
Gascón expressed his enactment for the brothers’ petition for clemency at a property conference Oct. 24 earlier formally making the petition successful a pair of letters submitted to the governor’s bureau Oct. 30. However, helium was defeated days later successful his bid for re-election by Hochman—who has not taken an authoritative stance connected the matter.
“I would get deep, heavy into the facts,” the person said during an L.A. Times and KNX News debate successful October. “You would surely not person maine clasp a property league to archer you I’m conscionable reasoning astir it.”
During the debate, helium besides questioned the timing of Gascón’s comments astir the case, calling it “incredibly suspicious.” However, Gascón unopen down claims his efforts were owed to the election, saying astatine the property league that his bureau had been moving with the Menendez household for months connected the matter.
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The Menendezes’ lawsuit gained renewed nationalist involvement amid the merchandise of Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, starring Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Cooper Koch successful the titular roles. At his October predetermination debate, Gascón admitted that the bid and consequent Menendez Brothers doc helped expedite the brothers’ case.
“When a caller Netflix documentary came out, we instantly started getting bombarded with media requests and calls due to the fact that the lawsuit came backmost again to the surface,” helium explained. “The determination was made that alternatively than reply 1 media petition astatine a time, we would really conscionable travel retired and precise intelligibly accidental wherever we are.”
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