A Judge of Los Angeles postponed on Thursday (17) a sentence review hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers who meet perpetual penalty for killing their parents in 1989, and scheduled a May 9th audience to hear arguments about the admissibility of a Risk Assessment Report of the State Conditional Freedom Commission.
The resentment hearing, which was criticized by Los Angeles County Prosecutor Nathan Hochman, could have made the brothers eligible for parole and possibly result in their release after 35 years behind bars.
The brothers’ lawyer, Mark Geragos, told reporters out of court that plans to present a motion to remove Hochman from the case.
“Based on the analysis we did, based on motions I have presented in the last 25 years and won in this county, this is a motion of removal as fair as all I have had,” said Geragos.
The motion will also be discussed on May 9.
The Menendez brothers were convicted in 1996 for the first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole to shoot parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez at their home in Beverly Hills on August 20, 1989.
The case captivated the US in the 1990s because of the wealth and privilege of the siblings as children of an entrepreneur and executive of the entertainment industry. Lyle was 21 years old and Erik was 18 at the time of the murders.
This content was originally published in a judge suspends hearing to the new sentence of the Menendez brothers in the US on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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