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Gavin Newsom Takes Steps to Override DA, Release Erik & Lyle Menendez From Prison

Governor Gavin Newsom has taken steps toward freeing the Menendez brothers.

But the brothers’ fortunes changed when newly elected California DA Nathan Hochman revealed that he had no intention of granting the Menendezes a new trial. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)The push for a new trial is the result of both renewed public interest in the case — prompted, in part, by Ryan Murphy’s recent Netflix limited series about Erik and Lyle — and new evidence suggesting that the brothers were molested by their father. “We believe it’s inconceivable … and defies common sense, that if they had evidence that would show that sexual abuse had been communicated not just six years before the events, but nine months before the 1989 killings, then it would have absolutely come out.”

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