Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman recommended on Friday that a judge reject Erik and Lyle Menendez's request for a new trial in the 1989 killings of their parents. The brothers filed a petition claiming new evidence of abuse by their father, but Hochman opposed this request. However, Hochman did not announce his decision on the brothers' separate resentencing request, stating that he would address it in the upcoming weeks before a scheduled hearing in March.
After spending over three decades in prison for the murders of their parents, the Menendez brothers have been seeking various avenues for their release, including a resentencing request, a petition for clemency to Governor Gavin Newsom, and a habeas corpus petition. Hochman's opposition to the habeas petition has shifted the momentum that had been building in the brothers' favor under his predecessor, George Gascón.
