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Eric: and: Lyle Menendez‘s relatives are not saying much about their first meeting with the new Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman … and neither is he.
Hochman held a press conference Friday, but he didn’t go into any specifics about his conversations with Menendez’s family members … only saying he felt the meeting was “productive.”
Although dozens of Eric and Lyle’s family members, who are also victims, support their release, Hochman says the number of relatives who support their freedom is not important … it’s more about the content of what they have to say, among others of other things.
Hochman made sure not to show his hand before this month’s court hearing … saying he’s still going through court records and jail records before deciding where he stands.
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We caught up Menendez Brothers“lawyer, Mark Geragosand their loved ones outside the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles … minutes after they tried to convince Hochman to let Eric and Lyle out of prison, where they were serving life without parole in 1989. for the shotgun murders of their parents Jose and: Kitty Menendez.
We asked Geragos if he and the family have been successful in their mission to get the DA to see the case their way, but no one wanted to comment, just as they were pretty mum about the case when we spoke to them. they were going there. the meeting.
In the decades since, the siblings’ loved ones have formed the Justice for Eric and Lyle Coalition in hopes of getting them out of prison … the family says the brothers have recovered from the nearly 35 years they’ve spent behind bars.
Former LA County DA of course George Gascon supported the case against the brothers, noting that they had been model prisoners while incarcerated.
However, after Gascon lost his November re-election bid to Hochman, Eric and Lyle’s preliminary hearing on the matter has been postponed until 2025
Since taking office, Hochman has had did not make it clear where he stands on the matter, though he met with an attorney representing a Menendez relative who does not support Eric and Lyle’s release.
