Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said he would only consider resentencing Lyle and Erik Menendez after they “come clean” about their self-defense claim for murdering their parents.
The Menendez brothers are 30 years into their life sentences without the possibility of parole over their respective first-degree murder charges. Recently the brothers, now 57 and 56, began filing motions to pursue new sentences for themselves, which is opposed by Hochman because the pair do not seem entirely rehabilitated.
“We have argued that rehabilitation includes exhibiting the full insight into the breadth of your criminal conduct. In this case, the Menendezes presented a lie in their main defense, which is that they engaged in self-defense, purportedly by shooting their parents on the night of Aug. 20, 1989,
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