Menendez Brothers Resentencing Listening to Ends, Geragos Calls for Threat Evaluation Report

The Menendez Brothers resentencing listening to has ended for the day … and won’t be continued on Friday, as initially scheduled.

The subsequent listening to is scheduled for Could 9, and can handle the admissibility of a threat evaluation report … and the brothers’ protection legal professional Mark Geragos is predicted to file for L.A. County District Lawyer Nathan Hochman to be personally recused from the case. Hochman grew up in Beverly Hills and went to the identical highschool because the Menendez Bros.

In a information convention after at present’s listening to, Geragos repeatedly accused the D.A.’s Workplace — and particularly Hochman — of retraumatizing the Menendez household. One member of the family was reportedly hospitalized after crime scene pictures had been proven in court docket on April 11.

No testimony will probably be heard within the Could 9 listening to, although the household is invited to attend. Whether or not the listening to is open to the general public remains to be being decided. Geragos nonetheless hasn’t seen the threat evaluation report, and is ready to obtain it.

Hochman himself filed a last-minute movement Wednesday evening in L.A. County Superior Courtroom to stop at present’s much-anticipated listening to from going ahead, arguing the court docket wants time to evaluation the California parole board’s threat evaluation report for Erik and Lyle Menendez. The choose rejected that movement and at present’s listening to went ahead.

As you realize, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s parole board again in February to conduct a threat evaluation of the brothers earlier than any clemency resolution could possibly be made.

Newsom plans to make use of the report as a part of a June 13 listening to, by which Erik and Lyle will every seem earlier than the board for his or her particular person opinions. After the listening to, Newsom will then make his resolution on whether or not to grant clemency to the brothers.

Erik and Lyle had been convicted of taking pictures their mother and father to dying with shotguns of their Beverly Hills house in 1989 and had been finally sentenced to life with out the opportunity of parole.