Menendez Politics: Family Praises Gavin Newsom Ordering Parole Board Probe As L.A. DA Punts New Trial & Big Hearing Looms

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A month before a potentially pivotal resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers and as the L.A. County District Attorney rejects a new trial for the siblings, Gov.

Gavin Newsom has ordered a risk assessment probe for Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez as a clemency petition sits on his desk. “The question for the board is a rather simple one, do Eric and Lyle Menendez, do they pose a current, what we call unreasonable risk to public safety?” the governor said earlier Wednesday of the now quinquagenarian siblings who were sentenced in 1996 to life without parole for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents at their Beverly Hills home. “The risk assessment will be conducted as they typically are conducted by experts in public safety as well as forensic psychologists.” “There’s no guarantee of outcome here,” Newsom cautioned of the decades long high-profile case of  that has seen the brothers behind bars for nearly 30 years. “My office conducts dozens and dozens of these clemency reviews on a consistent basis.

But this process simply provides more transparency, which I think is important in this case, as well as provides us more due diligence before I make any determination for clemency.” Coming as California’s term limited governor unveiled a new podcast project and hours before Newsom announces, “a major statewide economic initiative” on L.A.’s recovery for the devastating wildfires earlier this year, the parole board order also follows the declaration last week from L.A.

County DA Nathan Hochman coming out strongly against a new trial from the brothers. A post shared by Gavin Newsom (@gavinnewsom) With a planned press conference for today by members of the Menendez family suddenly postponed late Tuesday until