Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in an opposition filing Friday that the Menandes family’s April 25 motion to withdraw his office from his incarcerated brother was “no merit” and “desperate.”
“In the opposition, the District Attorney’s Office argued that in a ‘dramatic and desperate step, the defense decided to ‘avoid the focus of the core’s central issue and raised an argument that lacked merit to retake the entire District Attorney’s office,” Hodgman said. “The entire defense argument on the retreat came down to the defense being unsatisfied with the current District Attorney’s position on criminal responsibility. Although this desperate argument may play a role in news interviews, it failed in the courts of the adversarial judicial system.”
Erik and Lyle Menendez’s family filed a motion last week asking Hochman to withdraw from the case. In court documents obtained by TheWrap, the brothers insisted: “The record shows a conflict, which makes it unlikely that Erik and Lyle will accept a fair attitude hearing, and the deliberations are appropriate,” Los Angeles politicians continued to work to stop their attitudes.
“No one comes from the victim department of the District Attorney, even a family member whose views conflict with those of Ms. Cardi’s former client,” the document reads. (In this case, Kathleen Cady was “the only family member who opposed resentment.”)
The motion continues: “These family members are enough for nearly 35 years of prison, and Erik and Lyle should really be excited.”
Hawkman argued in Friday’s opposition that the DA’s office’s “continuous position has not yet, not forever, because it depends on the Menendez brothers finally took all the crimes, lied, deceived and covered up the people they were involved in and refused to give up.”
“From lying about their self-defense claims to trying to get friends to lie, they are violent rapists of a brother’s girlfriend or violent rapists of a mother who attempts to poison the family, these successive lies suggest that the Menedes brothers do not fully understand their crimes, do not recover, and continue to pose a danger to society. This is backed by former Da George Gascón.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic plans to hold a May 9 hearing to consider post-delayed lawsuits due to the Los Angeles wildfires, and Hochman’s efforts to give more time to review state risk assessment reports about the brothers.
Hochman faces $5.25 million discrimination lawsuits from prosecutors in Gascon’s office
Lyle and Erik Menendez, 54, have been imprisoned each since they were convicted of double murders by their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989. Both were initially sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and have since become a major aspect of popular culture.
Da Nathan Hochman said the Menendez Brothers’ censorship efforts “have no merit” in the opposition application, appearing first on TheWrap.
