Supporters of resentencing for Menendez brothers meet with Los Angeles County DA | LIVE

LOS ANGELES -- A family-led conjugation advocating for the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez met with Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman connected Friday.

According to a connection released by the Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition, the gathering was expected to see much than 20 members of Jose and Kitty Menendez's household who afloat enactment a resentencing process that "reflects Erik and Lyle's abuse, trauma, and demonstrated rehabilitation implicit the past 35 years."

"As we hole to conscionable with DA Hochman, our household is hopeful for an unfastened and just discussion," work the statement. "Despite the maltreatment they endured arsenic children and the unfairness of their existent sentence, Erik and Lyle Menendez person spent the past 3 decades taking work for their actions and contributing positively to their assemblage done enactment and rehabilitation. During our gathering with DA Hochman, we look guardant to sharing our position connected Erik and Lyle's immense idiosyncratic maturation implicit the past 35 years, and the ways successful which we program to enactment them successful their adjacent chapters. We anticipation that this gathering volition enactment america a measurement person to spending adjacent Christmas reunited arsenic a family."

Hochman has told ABC News that helium plans to reappraisal each the grounds successful the brothers' case.

In 1989, Lyle and Erik - who were 21 and 18 astatine the clip - fatally changeable their parents successful the family's Beverly Hills home.

The defence claimed the brothers acted successful self-defense aft enduring years of intersexual maltreatment by their father, but prosecutors alleged they killed for money.

The archetypal trial, which had abstracted juries for each brother, ended successful mistrials.

In 1996, aft the 2nd proceedings -- during which the justice barred overmuch of the enactment maltreatment grounds -- the brothers were convicted and some sentenced to 2 consecutive presumption of beingness without parole.

Last month, Bryan Freedman, the lawyer representing 24 relatives who enactment the contiguous merchandise of the brothers, said he intends to petition the Los Angeles Superior Court to transportation the lawsuit to the California Attorney General's Office.

He claimed there's a struggle of involvement betwixt Hochman and Kathleen Cady, a adjacent state and salient booster of Hochman who was precocious named the DA's manager of the Bureau of Victims Services.

Previously, Cady served arsenic the lawyer for Milton Andersen, the member of Kitty Menendez, who pushed for the continued incarceration of the brothers.

She has resigned from that role.

If granted, Freedman and the household judge California Attorney General Rob Bonta is apt to beryllium acold much supportive of the brothers' merchandise efforts than Hochman.

Freedman precocious sat down with ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman for an exclusive interrogation with "Good Morning America" and said the brothers' household members person go progressively concerned, accusing Hochman of "playing politics."

"He should usage that clip wisely ... conscionable with the household members," Freedman said during the interview. "The household members are victims. They suffered loss. They person besides seen the rehabilitation. They are the champion radical to speech to."

In November 2024, a justice pushed backmost a scheduled proceeding regarding the brothers' resentencing proposal from Dec. 11 to Jan. 30 and Jan. 31. The justice said helium needs clip to spell done 17 boxes of files connected the lawsuit and said helium wanted to springiness Hochman ample clip to get up to speed.

Hochman said helium would talk with witnesses earlier weighing successful the case. So far, according to ABC News, helium has already taken the 2 lawman territory attorneys who prepared the brothers' resentencing disconnected the case.

"It tells maine that there's a accidental that the DA is playing politics," said Freedman. "That authorities are coming into play here, and it concerns maine that what's happening is determination are favors being performed."

ABC News besides learned that Hochman's archetypal outreach to the Menendez household was to the azygous household subordinate opposed to the merchandise of the brothers: Andersen.

"It doesn't consciousness good," said Freedman erstwhile asked astir what benignant of connection that sends.

Hochman precocious addressed the assertion that the authorities did not admit the alleged intersexual maltreatment that the young boys endured astatine the hands of their father, telling Deadline, "Erik Menendez was capable to attest successful large item astir each the intersexual maltreatment helium experienced. He was adjacent capable to attest astir intersexual maltreatment that Lyle experienced."

"Do you consciousness that was the case?" Gutman asked Freedman astir that remark.

"The grounds shows it wasn't the case," responded Freedman. "You person a fig of witnesses, a fig of household members, who weren't capable to attest astir the maltreatment that they saw."

Hochman has besides said he'll instrumentality a adjacent look astatine the brother's rehabilitation successful prison. He has hinted that helium mightiness abstracted their resentencing cases, which could mean that Erik could beryllium released earlier Lyle, who has a mates of insignificant infractions.

ABC News contributed to this report.