Menendez Brothers: DA Withdraws Resentencing Request Over ‘Lies’ and ‘Fabricated’ Evidence

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that his office will withdraw its motion to reduce the sentences in Erik and Lyle Menendez’s murder trial, citing repeated “lies” and “fabricated” evidence over the past 30 years.

The brothers are currently serving life without parole, following the brutal murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.

After a thorough review of over 10,000s pages of trial transcripts, thousands of pages of prison records and hundreds of hours of videotaped trial testimony, the DA said that, though they will proceed with the scheduled hearing, they have removed the office’s prior resentencing request.

“We are requesting that the prior District Attorney’s motion for resentencing be withdrawn,” Hochman said in a press conference Monday. “The basis for that request is that the prior motion did not examine or consider whether the Menendez brothers have exhibited full insight and taken complete responsibility for their crimes by continuing for the past over 30 years to lie about their claims of self-defense.”

The district attorney recommended last month that the courts deny the Menendez brothers’ habeas petition, claiming that new evidence presented by the convicted brothers “could be part of a continuum of lies.”

Hochman reiterated the brothers’ pattern of lies in his Monday press briefing.

“The Menendez brothers have never come clean and admitted that they lied about their self-defense as well as suborned perjury and attempted to suborn perjury by their friends for the lies,” Hochman said, citing the alleged rape of Lyle’s girlfriend, their mother poisoning the family and other planted alibis.

The district attorney’s office outlined 16 explicit lies that the brothers never admitted to, including the fact that they did not cite self-defense as the leading factor in their parents’ murders to Dr. Oziel.

Gov. Gavin Newsom still has the clemency power to free the brothers. He announced Feb. 26 that he will order the parole board to conduct a 90-day “comprehensive risk assessment” investigation into whether the brothers pose “an unreasonable risk to the public.”

The district attorney’s office created a 16-minute video giving a thorough history of the Menendez brothers’ case to educate people on the criminal justice system. That video is available on the DA’s website, and it breaks down the three decades worth of legal action that has taken place in the high-profile murder trial.

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