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(NewsNation) — Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman says he's not biased against Erik and Lyle Menendez contempt accusations from the brothers' attorney.
"Nothing could beryllium further from the truth," Hochman told NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas connected Friday. "We've enactment successful some facts that are favorable and unfavorable to our eventual position."
Erik and Lyle Menendez are presently spending beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole for fatally shooting their begetter and parent successful their Beverly Hills location successful 1989. The brothers were 18 and 21 astatine the clip of the killings.
Now, the brothers are pushing to person their sentences reduced — a bid that erstwhile LA County DA George Gascón supported, but 1 that Hochman has opposed.
The resentencing hearings were expected to instrumentality spot this week but present look further delays.
Mark Geragos, the brothers' attorney, accused Hochman of having a idiosyncratic bias against his clients and wants him removed from the case.
"The household does not privation to spell done this charade anymore with the DA," Geragos said Thursday. "This is simply a DA that made up his caput and did nary hard work."
Hochman rejects those assertions and told Vargas his bureau has taken the lawsuit "incredibly seriously," reviewing "over 50,000 pages of proceedings transcripts, thousands of pages of situation records and hundreds of hours of videotape," among different work.
"Our eventual presumption with respect to resentencing is not 'no,' it's 'not yet,'" Hochman said.
He continued: "When the Menendez brothers afloat judge work for each their transgression conduct, deceit, lies and cover-up, past we person said that the justice should reconsider astatine that point."
The extended Menendez family, speech from an uncle who died past month, has said they afloat forgive the brothers for what they did and privation them to beryllium freed.
The adjacent proceeding is acceptable for May 9, wherever lawyers volition reason whether a caller study from California's parole committee is admissible successful court.
Watch the interrogation with Nathan Hochman successful the subordinate above.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
