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Menendez Brothers’ Clemency Consideration On Hold Until New L.A. DA Takes Office, Gavin Newsom Declares


December 3 can’t come soon enough got the Menendez Brothers. The first week after Thanksgiving finds new Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman taking office. As the former U.S. Assistant Attorney General made clear in his successful campaign against one-term incumbent George Gascón and since his November 5 landslide victory, one of the first […]

However, after the late October one-two punch of clemency requests from the Menendezs to Gavin Newsom and “strong support” letters from the then-poll challenged Gascón, the California Governor has hit pause — at least for the time being. If Hochman decides the December 11 resentencing hearing will go ahead as scheduled, LA Superior Court Judge William Ryan could shift the brothers penalty to manslaughter instead of first-degree murder, and they could walk out of prison soon if a parole board agrees. Those shows were followed by a Menendez docu on the Ted Sarando and Greg Peters-run streamer and advocacy for the brothers from the likes of Kim Kardashian and a number of the killers’ family members.

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