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But Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic denied Hochman's petition to withdraw a request for resentencing and ruled it could go forward on April 17-18. The brothers, now 57 and 54 ...
The resentencing hearing of Menendez brothers can move forward despite opposition from the district attorney, a Los Angeles court has ruled. The brothers' attorneys are attempting to have them ...
Members of Jose and Kitty Menendez’s family meet with District Attorney Hochman to press for the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez's first-degree murder convictions, in Los Angeles ...
He had asked the judge to remove life without the possibility of parole for the brothers to 50 years to life ... There is nothing I can do -- just go visit them and cry when I leave," she said.
will go ahead as planned. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic said following arguments that the hearing will proceed next Thursday. Deputy LA District Attorney Habib Balian had ...
Former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón asked a judge last year to change the brothers’ sentence from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life. That would made them ...
The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at ages 18 and 21 after being convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills ...
The brothers were aged 18 and 21 at the time. “Everything you argued today is absolutely fair game for the resentencing hearing next Thursday,” Jesic said. Erik Menendez and his brother Lyle ...
While defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar ...
The brothers -- who are among America's most infamous murderers -- are hoping to be resentenced for the 1989 shotgun slayings, reducing their current life-without-parole term to one that would ...
LOS ANGLES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles judge on Friday ruled that a resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez may go forward, dealing a setback to the prosecutor who opposed any leniency for ...