They will continue in prison for life: they deny new judgment to the Menéndez brothers

The Los Angeles District Prosecutor denied a new trial to the murderous brothers Erik and Lyle Menéndez on Friday, thus closing a path to freedom for the notorious couple of Malibu.

New York Post

Nathan Hochman district prosecutor announced his recommendation during a press conference 30 years after the brothers were convicted of the murders of their rich parents.

The convicted murderers had requested a new trial based on new evidence that had been abused by their father, José Menéndez, including a note that Erik wrote in 1988 detailing the abuse, as well as an affirmation of a band member What a abuse of him also.

But after reviewing the evidence, Hochman did not accept the argument of the brothers: he indicated that the corroborating evidence was too weak to justify a new trial and pointed out that even during the original trial in the 1990s, the claim of self -defense was the own claim was the Fourth version of the facts of the brothers.

“What I think is that they testified about that sexual abuse. They did it with great detail. I also understand that when it dealt with any information that corroborate that sexual abuse, it was extremely poor, ”Hochman told journalists.

“And the fact that it was his fourth version, in other words, they did not say at the beginning: ‘We kill our parents because our father sexually abused us. They did not dare to tell anyone when they were arrested, ”the prosecutor continued.

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