Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman will not treat the Menendez brothers as a package deal when deciding on their possible resentencing. He plans to review each case individually, despite their shared notoriety. The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1989 murders of their parents.
Some may think of the fates of the Menendez brothers as inextricably entwined, but Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman says he will not consider the pair a package deal when it comes to making a decision on their possible resentencing. “While they’re called the ‘Menendez brothers case,’ there’s an Erik Menendez case and Lyle Menendez case,' Hochman told NBC's Lester Holt. 'So we will look at each case separately, which is the way they actually should be handled.
' The famous brothers were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996 for murdering their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. This year, the brothers stepped back into the limelight, following two hit TV shows about their case, and a new effort by prosecutors to downgrade their sentence in light of recently emerged evidence. Former Dist. Atty. George Gascón previously recommended that a judge give the brothers a new sentence of 50 years to life, which would make them eligible for immediate parole. But then Hochman defeated Gascón in the November election and announced he would reconsider that decision. In November, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic decided to bump the date of the brothers' resentencing hearing from Dec. 11 to Jan. 30 and 31. Jesic said he needed more time to review the complex case and give the new district attorney a chance to do the same. This week, Hochman told NBC News he was hard at work 'reading thousands of pages of confidential prison files,' but he did not indicate which way he was leaning. He said that he would speak to everyone in his office who had 'ever touched the Menendez case' before making his decision. However, Hochman recently removed two deputy district attorneys who had worked with Gascón on the recommendation to downgrade the brothers' sentence, Variety reporte
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