L.A. County D.A. Nathan Hochman
I Will not Recuse Myself From Menendez Case
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Los Angeles County District Lawyer Nathan Hochman says he’ll NOT recuse himself from the Erik and Lyle Menendez case … regardless of their lawyer calling for Hochman to step apart.
In new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Hochman says there isn’t any authorized cause for him to recuse himself … and he blasts the protection for what he sees as a “drastic and determined step” … claiming they’re attempting to sidestep the central difficulty right here … resentencing, which Hochman opposes.
Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, beforehand referred to as for Hochman to recuse himself.
Hochman grew up in Beverly Hills and went to the identical highschool because the Menendez Bros … and the Menendez household and Geragos say Hochman has been retraumatizing the Menendez household … alleging he is violating Marsy’s Legislation rights for victims and claiming his determination to indicate crime scene photographs in an April court docket listening to was so upsetting it ended up placing an aged relative within the hospital.
Bryan Freedman, the lawyer for the Menendez household, blasted Hochman in a brand new assertion to TMZ, telling us … “Reasonably than do his actual job and take steps to cease the looting, smash and grabs, document variety of burglaries and different rampant legal habits in Los Angeles, DA Hochman would reasonably guide appearances on TV and social media to indicate that he thinks childhood sexual abuse has no influence on human habits.”
Freedman provides … “Verbally abusing the member of the family victims isn’t an instance of being robust on crime. This man is out of contact with actuality. His place that if Lyle and Erik admit to purported lies made 35 years in the past, that he would change his place is preposterous. It might get his face and identify within the media however clearly that issue isn’t solely flawed however has zero influence in any way on whether or not they’re prone to commit a harmful felony sooner or later.”
Eirk and Lyle have a court docket listening to set for subsequent Friday, the place the decide will presumably contemplate the recusal movement and handle the admissibility of a danger evaluation report.
As we have advised you, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s parole board again in February to conduct a danger evaluation of the brothers earlier than he made any clemency determination.
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Newsom says he plans to make use of the report as a part of a June 13 listening to, wherein Erik and Lyle are supposed to seem earlier than the board for particular person opinions. After the listening to, the Governor plans to then make his determination on whether or not to grant them clemency.
Erik and Lyle have been convicted of murdering their mother and father with shotguns of their Beverly Hills house in 1989 and have been sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole.
Regardless of their sentence, Erik and Lyle hope their rehabilitation in jail will get them launched from jail. They’ve filed for resentencing, requested clemency and pushed for a brand new trial primarily based on what they are saying is newly unearthed proof.
