Menendez brothers' attorney says L.A. County DA's withdrawal decision is ‘re-traumatizing’ family
An attorney for Erik and Lyle Menendez blasted the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s decision to withdraw a recommendation to reduce their prison terms, calling it a "grandstanding" move that only "re-traumatizes" the family.
An attorney for Erik and Lyle Menendez blasted the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s decision to withdraw a recommendation to reduce their prison terms, calling it a "grandstanding" move that only "re-traumatizes" the family.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman reversed course from his predecessor on Monday by withdrawing a resentencing recommendation for the brothers, who are serving life without parole for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
Hochman said he’ll only reconsider if the brothers apologize for what he calls a litany of lies.
“If they go ahead and sincerely and unequivocally for the first time in 30 years lay out that they have now lied on their entire defense, and finally admit that they killed their parents in cold blood, then that will be a new insight that the court should then consider,” Hochman told NBC News’ Liz Kreutz.
The DA's decision to withdraw featured a list of 16 "unacknowledged lies" by the brothers including that they “lied when they claimed their parents were going to kill them, and they had to act in self-defense,” according to the filing.
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