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(NewsNation) — Family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez are holding a rally and quality league Thursday extracurricular the location of Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman.
The Menendez brothers person been jailed for decades aft being convicted of fatally shooting their parents successful their Beverly Hills location successful 1989. During their trials, the brothers said the killings came aft years of sexual abuse by their father.
Both men were sentenced to beingness without parole.
Their lawsuit has precocious received renewed attraction connected societal media, overmuch of it from a procreation excessively young to person heard of the incidental before.
The erstwhile L.A. County territory lawyer recommended resentencing. Factors down the proposal included further grounds that appears to corroborate claims of intersexual maltreatment and a amended knowing of kid intersexual battle and however it affects victims.
Since taking office, Hochman has moved to withdraw 1 of the pathways to resentencing. He has besides said helium would lone enactment a resentencing, which would let the brothers to beryllium eligible for parole if they admit to what helium says are galore lies.
Hochman has been hesitant to code the intersexual maltreatment claims successful item and has lone said it was not the defence that Lyle and Erik Menendez utilized astatine trial. One criterion helium has laid retired is for the brothers to admit they did not termination their parents successful self-defense, thing Hochman claims they lied about.
In a quality release, the Justice for Erik and Lyle Menendez Coalition, which is led by members of the family, said it would code the "DA's relentless fixation connected the past" and accused Hochman of silencing victims of intersexual abuse.
