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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 9:40PM
A antecedently scheduled tribunal proceeding for Erik and Lyle Menendez that was initially acceptable for March 20 and 21 has been postponed.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A antecedently scheduled tribunal proceeding for Erik and Lyle Menendez that was initially acceptable for aboriginal this period has been postponed.
The two-day proceeding had been expected to beryllium held connected March 20 and 21. A caller day was not instantly announced.
Last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the authorities parole committee to analyse whether the brothers would airs a hazard to the nationalist if they are released aft astir 3 decades successful situation for the 1989 sidesplitting of their parents.
Family members of Erik and Lyle Menendez held a quality league Thursday day and reacted to the latest developments successful the brothers' case.
On Tuesday, Lyle Menendez wrote connected societal media: "The resentencing proceeding acceptable for this period volition not occur. Everyone progressive recognizes the value of waiting for the results of the Risk Assessment, arsenic initiated by Governor Newsom.
"Hang tight, support the faith," Lyle Menendez added.
The brothers are pursuing aggregate avenues to triumph their freedom: Clemency from Newsom, a resentencing hearing, and a caller trial. Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said past period that helium opposes a caller proceedings for the brothers, but helium hasn't made up his caput connected whether to enactment a resentencing bid that could pb to their freedom. Newsom has said helium volition not marque a clemency determination until Hochman finishes reviewing the case.
The projected resentencing for the brothers would marque them instantly eligible for parole.
The brothers were recovered blameworthy successful the murders of their amusement enforcement father, Jose, and their mother, Kitty Menendez, and sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole. They began their latest bid for state successful caller years aft their attorneys said caller grounds of their father's intersexual maltreatment emerged, and they person the enactment of astir of their extended family.
Hochman said helium has filed an informal effect urging the Los Angeles County Superior Court to cull a habeas petition filed by the brothers' attorneys successful 2023 that seeks a reexamination of their lawsuit that centers successful portion connected the allegations that Jose Menendez sexually abused Erik Menendez.
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