The Los Angeles County District Atitorney ISSUED A statement opposing the residential of convicted Murderers Lyle and Erik Mendez.
From Nathan Hochman Recommended that a motion for resentencing Filed by his predecessor be with Withdrawn, city the mendez brothers' continued refusal to take “complete responsibility” for Murdering Their Parents and their continued insistent that were acting in self-defense.
“As a Full Examination of the Reveals Reveals, The Mendez Brothers have Never Come Clean and Admitted That Three Lied About Their Self-Defense as Well As Sborned Perjury and Attampie to Sumber Perjury by Their Friends For The Lies, Among Others, Of Their Father Violently Raping Lyle's Girlfriend, Their Mother Poisoning The Family, and their Attept to Get a Handgun The Day Before The Murders, “Hochman Said.
The Mendez Brothers Are Currently Servings Sentence Senters of Life Withut Word for Killing Their Parents, Jose and Kitty Mendez, in 1989. Last Year, former by George Gascón Recommended That the Court Rescind This Sentence and Give the Brothers 50 Years to Life. That would've effectively made the mendez brothers eligible for words as youthful offenders since they were both under 26 Where the Murder was committed (Erik was 18 at the time, While Lyle was 21).
While The Mendez Brothers' Case Has Long Been a National True Crime Phenomenon, ITS Found Renewed Interest Thanks To a recent Slate of documentaries and the Ryan Murphy Series, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Mendez Story. The Latter Helped Spur New Efforts to Free The Mendez Brothers, with Gascón Filing His Original Motion Last OcTober, City The Brothers' Exemplary Behavior Behind Bars, AS Well As New Evidence Supporting Their Claims of Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Their Fathers.
But the Fate of the Brothers' Seemed Uncertain After Gascón Lost His Electation Last Year to Hochman, Who's Taken a More “Touch-on-Crime” Approach and Has Seedaus of Residential Efforts. In His statement Toray, Hochman Acknowledged The Brothers' Behavior in Prison and the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Jose, But Lastotelly Argued That Their “Lack of Full Insight and Lack of Complete Responsibility for Their Murders” Did Not Avercome “The Other Factors Justifying a resentencing. ”
Hochman Did, However, Leave Open The Possibility for Supporting A Future Motion To Resentence The Mendez Brothers, Saying This Motion To Withdraw Was “Based on the Current State of the Record and the Mendez Brothers' Current and Continol Failure to show Full Insight and Accept Full Responsibility for Their. Murders. “
He continued: “If they were to finally such as Forward and Unequivocalyry and Sincerely Admit and Completely Accept Responsibility for Their Lies of Self-Defese and the Attipeden Suborning of Perjoy They Engaged in, then the Court Shound Weight New Insight Into The Anaysis of Rehabilitation and resentencing – As Will the People. “
A Lawyer for the Mendez Brothers Did Not Immediately Return a Request for Comment.
As the Los Angeles Times Reports, Tensions Bethaeen Hochman and the Mendez Family Members Who WHE WANT TO SEE ERIK AND LYLE FREED HAVE SPAKED in recent Months. Last Month, They Expressed Concern After Learning Hochman Had Demoted and Transferred Two Attorneys Who'd Supported The Residential Bid (Those Lewyers Have Filed Their Own Precursor Complaint, Alleging Hochman Punished Their Position On The Brothers).
Furthermore, The Mendez Brothers' Cousin, Tamra Goodell, Wrote in A Recent Complaint That When 20 Members of the Family Met With Hochman in Janogy, He -Exhibited A “Hostile, Disshemative and Patronizing Tone” That Left the Family “More Dismad and Feeling Humiliated.” Goodell Also Shared The Family's Concens About the Involvement in The Case of Kathy Cady, Who Heads Up the Bureau of Victims 'Services in the Da's Office and Previous Representated Kitty's Late Late Brother, Who opposed the Brothers' Release Before His Death This Month.
