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(NewsNation) — A long-awaited resentencing proceeding for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez is acceptable to determination guardant Thursday, hours aft Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman filed a motion attempting to hold it further.
Scheduled for Thursday and Friday, the proceeding could overturn the brothers' sentences of beingness without parole astir 30 years aft they were convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, successful their Beverly Hills location successful 1989.
The proceeding has been postponed aggregate times since erstwhile DA George Gascón recommended resentencing past fall, citing caller grounds successful the lawsuit amid renewed attraction from a Netflix series astir the killings.
Late Wednesday, Hochman filed a question to again propulsion the proceeding back, citing the request to reappraisal a recently completed parole committee hazard appraisal ordered by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Deadline archetypal reported.
“Although the People were directed not to disclose these reports owed to the Governor’s Executive privilege and for different reasons, the Governor’s Office has invited the Court to petition these documents for usage astatine the resentencing hearing,” the DA’s question stated.
Supporters clasp signs during a property league regarding developments successful the Menendez brothers lawsuit Thursday, March 20, 2025, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
FILE - Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez beryllium with defence lawyer Leslie Abramson, right, successful Beverly Hills Municipal Court during a hearing, Nov. 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
This operation of 2 booking photos provided by the California Department of Corrections shows Erik, left, and Lyle Menendez. (California Dept. of Corrections via AP, File)
FILE - Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman talks astir the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez for the murders of their parents during a quality league successful downtown Los Angeles, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
On April 12, a judge rejected Hochman's effort to withdraw the brothers' resentencing petition altogether.
Hochman has maintained the brothers person not accepted afloat work for their actions.
"Until they travel afloat cleanable with the afloat breadth of their lies, deceit and denials, they are not successful a presumption to beryllium trusted," Hochman told NewsNation past week.
Those lies, Hochman said, see the brothers’ assertion of self-defense, the characterization of their begetter arsenic a “violent rapist” and their parent arsenic a “poisoner of the family,” among others.
Family members, including relative Tamara Goodell, person advocated for the brothers' merchandise from prison.
Goodell told a rally of resentencing supporters successful March that "kids prevarication erstwhile they’re scared, erstwhile they consciousness intimidated and erstwhile they go traumatized.”
“But they turn up, they learn, and they instrumentality responsibility,” Goodell said.
In summation to Thursday’s resentencing hearing, the Menendez brothers are scheduled for idiosyncratic hearings earlier California's parole committee connected June 13, aft which Newsom volition determine whether to assistance clemency.
NewsNation's Damita Menezes and Andrew Dorn contributed to this report.
