Menendez Brothers’ Clemency Fate Could Be Decided In June, Gavin Newsom Says; Siblings’ Family Accuse LA DA Of “Outrageous & Abusive Behavior”

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California’s governor revealed tonight the fate of the Menendez brothers will take a pivotal turn in the next 90 days towards possible freedom. “On June 13, both Lyle and Eric Menendez independently will have their final hearing,” Gavin Newsom said late Tuesday in a shorten version of his recently launched podcast in response the March 10 announcement by LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman pulling his office’s support for a resentencing of the siblings.

Coming just over two weeks after Hochman rejected new trials for the brothers, who were sentenced to life without parole in 1996 for the brutal 1989 shotgun murder of their parents, Monday’s declaration by the D.A.

that the Menendezs “do not meet the standards for rehabilitation” heated up the game of political hot potato this case has become in the Golden State the last six months.

Tonight, two weeks after Newsom ordered a parole board risk assessment of the Menendez cases, the lame duck governor picked up what Hochman put down, literally and figuratively, and ran with it. “A report then will be submitted to me on the 13th of June for consideration,” Newsom said on his podcast of the now 50-ish brothers are a risk to society. “We will submit that report to the judge for the resentencing, and that will weigh into our independent analysis of whether or not to move forward with the clemency application to support a commutation of this case.” As it stands, even with Hochman’s anti-resentencing decision, a much delayed hearing is still on the court calendar for March 20-21 in front of  L.A.