Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman has asked a court to deny a petition for a new trial filed by Lyle and Erik Menendez, arguing that the new evidence presented lacks credibility due to a history of deception by the brothers.
At a Feb. 21 press conference, Hochman detailed why he believes the petition, which seeks to vacate the brothers’ convictions, should be rejected.
“We believe it’s inconceivable, as we’ve argued in our papers, and defies common sense, that if they had evidence that would show that sexual abuse had been communicated not just six years before the events, but nine months before the 1989 killings, that it would absolutely have come out during one or both of their testimonies,” Hochman said during the press conference.
The Menendez brothers were convicted in 1996 for the August 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home. They are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Their petition, filed in May 2023, presented two new pieces of evidence: an undated photocopy of a letter allegedly written by Erik Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano in December 1988 discussing sexual abuse by his father, and a declaration by Roy Rossello claiming he was sexually abused by Jose Menendez in the early 1980s. […]
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