Efforts by the Menendez brothers to be released from prison hit another roadblock this week when Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said he would not recommend resentencing because he believes they have not taken full responsibility for the murders of their parents and that their self-defense claims are a litany of “lies.”
Erik and Lyle Menendez have maintained that the shotgun slayings of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in 1989 were committed in self-defense. The brothers were convicted in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
