Los Angeles County's next District Attorney said he's been preparing for the role, meeting with the office's prosecutors and studying the bureaucracy.
He's met with line prosecutors and studied the bureaucracy, said Hochman who will face potential decisions in the Menendez brothers murder case within days of taking office.Los Angeles County's next District Attorney said Wednesday he's been preparing for the role, meeting with the office's prosecutors and studying the bureaucracy, so he can begin work immediately on revising the office's policies and priorities.
The brothers are currently serving life-without-parole sentences for the shotgun murders of their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989, but Hochman said he can't consider the case without reviewing the files and speaking to the parties, which he can't do until he takes office. "The Menendez brothers need to know what the answer is, the victims' family members need to know what the answer is, the public needs to know what that answers is."
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