Los Angeles DA opposes new trial for Menendez brothers over parents’ deaths

<p>Nathan Hochman casts doubt on sexual abuse claims but declines to say whether he would support resentencing</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles’s</a> new tough-on-crime district attorney made clear on Friday he was taking a much less sympathetic view of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s case, though his office has not yet announced what position it will take on the issue of whether the brothers should be resentenced.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/erik-lyle-menendez-brothers-resentencting">Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, Menendez</a> were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/us/menendez-brothers-sentenced-to-life-in-prison.html">sentenced</a> to life in prison without parole.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/menendez-brothers-retrial-la-district-attorney">Continue reading...</a>