“Not Credible Evidence”: L.A. DA Rejects Menendez Brothers’ Efforts To Get New Trials As Resentencing Hearing Approaches

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A month before a repeatedly rescheduled resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers, the Los Angeles County District Attorney today called out the siblings for “a continuum of lies and deceit and fabricating stories.” In a sometimes vivid and sometimes dense press conference in downtown LA, Nathan Hochman revealed his office is opposing efforts by the siblings to have their life sentences for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents challenged and given new trials. “We conclude in our informal response that the court should deny the current habeas corpus petition,” the DA said Friday. “We do not believe they qualify to get a new trial,” he went on to say, listing off the courts that have previously rejected the Menendez’ appeals since they were found guilty of first degree murder almost 30 years ago.

He also released a video outlining his office’s take on the case. Watch it below. As a hearing on the separate matter of resentencing looms for March 20, D.A.

Hochman Friday essentially rejected evidence presented by the brothers and lawyers in recent years as a method of seeking a new trial or perhaps even early release from their life sentences for the murders of their parents.

Specifically, the evidence in question is a 1988 letter between Erik Menendez and his cousin Andy Cano on the repeated sexual abuse that was allegedly being perpetratedby the siblings’ father on Lyle Menendez and others. “So, to say that this letter was not discovered until after the trial, as it has been alleged in the defense papers, we believe is just wrong,” the D.A.