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(NewsNation) — Tamara Goodell, a relative of Lyle and Erik Menendez, told NewsNation's "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" connected Tuesday the brothers person apologized to their household for the events surrounding the deaths of their parents and their consequent execution trials.
Following a wide publicized mistrial and 2nd trial, Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted successful 1996 of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, successful August 1989. They were sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole.
Last year, caller grounds became nationalist successful which Erik Menendez spoke astir being sexually abused by his father, a assertion seemingly supported by abstracted but akin allegations made against Jose Menendez by Roy Rossello, a subordinate of the lad set Menudo.
The revelations led the Los Angeles territory lawyer astatine the time, George Gascon, to denote his bureau would see resentencing the brothers, a determination supported by galore members of the larger Menendez family.
Since then, Gascon has been replaced by Nathan Hochman, who has appeared hostile to the thought of resentencing, telling Elizabeth Vargas earlier this month, "Until they travel clean, afloat clean, with the afloat breadth of their lying, deceit and their denials, they're not successful a presumption to beryllium trusted, afloat rehabiliated and proceed to airs a hazard to nine and nationalist safety."
"One of the points (Hochman) has made repeatedly is that helium wants Erik and Lyle to apologize to america arsenic a family," Goodell told Vargas. "I person to archer you, they person apologized to america aggregate times, person said, 'We privation to beryllium down with you. We privation to reply your questions.'
"They've ne'er erstwhile denied, oregon tried to scapegoat, what actions they took."
The Menendez household has requested Hochman beryllium removed from the lawsuit oregon recuse himself. The brothers' adjacent resentencing proceeding is presently scheduled for May 9.
