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Menendez Brothers Suddenly Withdraw Move To Toss L.A. DA Off Case; Resentencing Hearings Set For Next Week


In an unexpected turn of events, the Menendez brothers lawyer pulled a motion to kick the DA off the case

In a surprising move this morning at a hearing in the Van Nuys courthouse, Menendez brothers lawyer Mark Geragos has withdrawn a motion to kick DA Nathan Hochman and his entire office off the case. Earlier Friday, the incarcerated and now middle aged Lyle Menendez took to social media to lament the “reindeer games” of the brothers hopes to be free, as well the direction he assumed events were going to go. Today’s session before comes a week after Hochman’s office pushed back hard on the recusal motion in what has become a dogfight or sorts between the parties over altering the siblings’ 1996 life without parole sentence.

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