The Menendez brothers filed a movement Friday to disqualify LA District Legal professional Nathan Hochman from their resentencing listening to, as they proceed their push for freedom.
A protracted-awaited resentencing listening to for Lyle and Erik Menendez floor to a halt on April 17, simply hours after attorneys arrived on the courthouse in Van Nuys, partly over a threat evaluation report on the brothers that was not meant for that week’s courtroom continuing.
Now, the brother’s legal professional, Mark Geragos, is arguing that the case cannot transfer ahead with the LA County DA concerned.
“I am undecided that this man is in keeping with LA County,” stated Geragos. “He organizes a protest in opposition to the resentencing. I may go on and on. It’s detailed in 160 pages.”
Amongst these particulars, Geragos claims there was solely one member of the family who needed the Menendez brothers to remain behind bars. That member of the family was represented by an legal professional who was appointed by Hochman because the director of the division’s Bureau of Sufferer Companies.
“He is employed a girl who has it out for them, put her in control of sufferer companies, and he is abused the victims,” stated Geragos. “He clearly has a battle, he is admitted he has a battle.”
The Menendez brothers are serving life sentences in jail, with out the opportunity of parole, for the homicide of their mother and father, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989. Los Angeles’ prime prosecutor has opposed resentencing, claiming the brothers killed their mother and father for a multimillion-dollar inheritance and haven’t admitted to lies throughout their trials nor taken full accountability for the crime.
LA County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman and Menendez brothers legal professional Mark Geragos converse forward of the listening to. Brittany Hope stories for the NBC4 Information at 11 a.m. on Thursday April 17, 2025.
A motions listening to is scheduled for Could 9 after Choose Michael Jesic postponed the scheduled two-day resentencing listening to, which had already been delayed as a result of January wildfires and a request by the Los Angeles County District Legal professional to rise up to hurry on the method initiated by his predecessor.
“It will come out. We will be listening to on Could 9. I’ve my theories and a few intrepid reporter will determine it out, the motivation behind it,” stated Geragos.
NBC4 has reached out to the LA DA’s workplace concerning the movement. The workplace has not returned a request for remark.
