Los Angeles DA Challenges Menendez Brothers’ Defense in Push for Release

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is voicing skepticism over the latest efforts by Erik and Lyle Menendez to secure their release from prison. The Menendez brothers, who have served nearly 35 years behind bars for the 1989 murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, argue that their life sentences should be reconsidered due to alleged sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of their father, José Menendez.

In a recent interview with Deadline, Hochman questions a central claim in the brothers’ defense: that the. . .