George Gascón Loses LA County District Attorney Reelection Bid; Menendez Brothers’ Potential Release Thrown Into Doubt
deadline.comA canny political survivor, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has run out of electoral lives. The incumbent prosecutor has lost his bid for reelection against ex-U.S.
Assistant Attorney General Nathan Hochman. The race end with the latter getting 61.3% of the vote to the former’s 38.7%. Despite some high profile moves such as seeking an early release from the life without parole sentences of the Menendez brothers and their 30 years behind bars, the one-term Gascón’s defeat was a done deal weeks ago.
Backed by Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Oscar nominated documentary director Rory Kennedy, former George W. Bush’s appointee Hochman has held a double digit lead over ex-San Francisco D.A.
Gascón for most of the campaign. With no small irony, the success of Ryan Murphy’s nine-part Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was instrumental in bringing the case back to the headlines.
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