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Menendez Brothers’ Resentencing Hearing Can Proceed, Judge Rules
A Los Angeles judge ruled that a resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez can proceed, rejecting an effort by the district attorney to withdraw a motion to reconsider the brothers lifetime punishment, according to the AP. The judge, Michael Jesic, made his ruling following a day-long hearing, one that saw the brothers appear via […]
“We will submit that report to the judge for the resentencing, and that will weigh into our independent analysis of whether or not to move forward with the clemency application to support a commutation of this case,” Newsom said on his podcast. The hearing was to determine whether District Attorney Nathan Hochman could drop a resentencing motion, reversing the action taken by his predecessor. The brothers have stepped back into the headlines in no small part due to Ryan Murphy and Netflix’s hit series Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story and several documentaries reexamining their cases.
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