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The Menendez brothers, Erik and Lyle, appeared to be well on their way to being released from prison after over 30 years prior to the November 5th election in the United States.
Now that possibility has been thrown into jeopardy, thanks to Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon losing his bid for re-election to Independent former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Nathan Hochman 61.3% to 38.7% on Tuesday.
Gascon, 70, had asked California Governor Gavin Newsom to grant clemency to the Menedez brothers prior to his defeat and had set up a hearing on December 11th about potentially re-sentencing of the brothers. The brothers had filed a habeas petition in 2023.
“When a recent Netflix documentary came out, we immediately started getting bombarded with media requests and calls because the case came back again to the surface,” George Gascon explained prior to the election. “The decision was made that rather than answer one media request at a time, we would actually just come out and very clearly say where we are.”
Gascon added during a press conference recommending the brothers be re-sentenced to 50 years in prison with the possibility for parole, “There are people in the office that strongly believe that the Menendez brothers should stay in prison the rest of their life, and they do not believe that they were molested. And there are people in the office that strongly believe that they should be released immediately, and that they were, in fact, molested.”
Newly-elected Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman does not sound like he is one of those people, which is a problem for the Menedez brothers because he will take office, replacing George Gascon, before their hearing.
In a debate held last month, Hochman said Gascon’s sudden interest in the Menendez case was “suspicious” in its timing.
A legal source also told RadarOnline.com, Hochman’s election “doesn’t mean [he] will plug the on the Menendez case with evidence of the sexual abuse they suffered from their father without dispute.”
“But with zero dispute that the brothers brutally killed their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills home in 1989 with reloaded shotguns, it doesn’t mean he won’t either so the brothers face a few more weeks of uncertainty.”