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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that he’s ordering the California Board of Parole Hearings to intimately analyse whether the Menendez brothers airs a hazard to nationalist information if released from situation close now.
Newsom made the announcement connected his “This is Gavin Newsom” podcast.
“The question for the committee is simply a alternatively elemental one," Newsom said during the introductory episode. “Do Erik and Lyle Menendez airs an unreasonable hazard to nationalist safety?”
Public information experts and forensic psychologists volition behaviour the hazard assessment. According to Eytan Wallace, California Capitol newsman for Nexstar Media, the process starts with experts analyzing what led a idiosyncratic to perpetrate an discourtesy and determining whether they person done the transformational enactment needed—and gained the skills—to debar repeating their mistakes.
Nexstar Media is the genitor institution of KTLA 5.
Once that’s complete, a proceeding volition enactment similar a modular parole hearing, providing the District Attorney and the victims a accidental to beryllium portion of the process.
The hazard appraisal results volition beryllium disposable to the justice presiding implicit the lawsuit and Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman.
Newsom’s announcement comes aft Hochman announced that his bureau had issued an informal effect requesting the courts contradict the brothers’ habeas petition.
A habeas petition is simply a ceremonial situation to the legality of a conviction. It is often considered a past edifice aft appeals person been exhausted. If caller grounds is deemed sufficient, it could yet pb to a convict’s release.
In October, erstwhile DA George Gascón announced that his bureau would reexamine the lawsuit successful the airy of caller evidence, including a letter purportedly written by Erik Menendez just months earlier helium and his brother, Lyle, killed their parents with a shotgun astatine their Beverly Hills location successful 1989. They were 21 and 18 astatine the time, respectively.
The missive details alleged intersexual maltreatment committed by their father, Jose Menendez.
Despite the setback from the DA’s office, Newsom has “unilateral” powerfulness to assistance the brothers clemency, which would escaped them immediately. Still, Newsom noted that "there is nary warrant of result here."
Erik and Lyle Menendez admitted to fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and their mother, Kitty Menendez, aft fearing their parents were astir to termination them to halt radical from uncovering retired that Jose Menendez had sexually abused Erik Menendez for years.
The brothers person been successful situation for implicit 30 years aft being convicted successful 1996.
The lawsuit has regained nationalist attraction since the merchandise of Netflix’s “The Menendez Brothers” film.
