{"id":43837,"date":"2025-05-02T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/?p=43837"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:29:33","slug":"menendez-brothers-resentencing-l-a-da-familys-lawyer-butt-heads-over-recusal-move-media-hits-a-week-ahead-of-pivotal-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/news\/criminal\/menendez-brothers-resentencing-l-a-da-familys-lawyer-butt-heads-over-recusal-move-media-hits-a-week-ahead-of-pivotal-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Menendez Brothers Resentencing: L.A. DA &amp; Family\u2019s Lawyer Butt Heads Over Recusal Move &amp; Media Hits A Week Ahead Of Pivotal Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-8bd42a4b-4e62-4699-8f98-060ed9274b32\">A week before<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/menendez-resentencing-delayed-may-1236371327\/\">&nbsp;a hearing that could be pivotal<\/a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-menendez-brothers\/\">the Menendez brothers<\/a>&nbsp;getting out of prison, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/los-angeles-district-attorney\/\">Los Angeles District Attorney<\/a>&nbsp;today slammed the siblings\u2019 lawyers for their \u201cdrastic and desperate step of attempting to recuse the entire Office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe defense conflates a conflict of interest with zealous advocacy,\u201d says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/menendez-da-Opposition-to-Motion-to-Disqualify.pdf\">the 15-page opposition filing<\/a>&nbsp;Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court by DA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nathan-hochman\/\">Nathan Hochman<\/a>\u2019s office. \u201cIn our adversarial system of justice, the parties often do not agree These disagreements are neither novel nor improper. They are often necessary hallmarks of our adversarial system\u2019s search for the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filed on April 25, the Menendezes\u2019 recusal motion claims it is \u201cmade on the grounds that, absent recusal, a conflict of interest would render it likely that the defendants will receive neither a fair hearing nor fair treatment through all related proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiming for a May 9 scheduled hearing on the matter, the DA\u2019s filing today gets down and dirty in its response document signed by Deputy DAs Habib Balian and Ethan Milius for their boss: \u201cThe entire defense argument over recusal boils down to the defense not being happy with the current District Attorney\u2019s position on resentencing; therefore it concludes the Office and the District Attorney himself must be so biased that they should be thrown off the case. This desperate argument may work in a press interview but fails in a court of law based on an adversarial system of justice. Accordingly, the motion for recusal should be summarily denied as a matter of law, obviating the need for an evidentiary hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/03\/menendez-brothers-resentencing-1236322231\/\">Earlier this year,&nbsp;<\/a>Hochman\u2019s withdrew his predecessor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-gascon\/\">George Gasc\u00f3n<\/a>\u2019s move to support a reconsideration of the sentencing of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lyle-menendez\/\">Lyle Menendez<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/erik-menendez\/\">Erik Menendez<\/a>&nbsp;for the shotgun murder of their parents in 1989 and rejected hopes for a new trial. After the Menendez case sat on his desk for ages,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/george-gascon\/\">Gasc\u00f3n<\/a>&nbsp;suddenly picked up on it after the success of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s&nbsp;Ryan Murphy series<em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/monsters-the-lyle-and-erik-menendez-story\/\">Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and some documentaries claiming new evidence and as his re-election prospects dimmed. Wiping the incumbent out in November, failed California Attorney General candidate Hochman promised to carefully look over the files before making his own judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur position on resentencing is&nbsp;not yet, rather than never,&nbsp;as it depends on the Menendez brothers finally coming clean after 30 years with all the crimes, lies, deceits and cover-up they engaged in and refuse to renounce,\u201d Hochman said Friday, repeating his much heard mantra on the Menedenzes and their 1996 sentencing to life without parole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that context, the D.A. and Menendez family attorneys Mark Geragos and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bryan-freedman\/\">Bryan Freedman<\/a>&nbsp;clashed face-to-face in court on April 17. Long delayed, that gathering was supposed to be a resentencing hearing on the brothers\u2019 life sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the packed session in front of Judge&nbsp;Micheal Jesic&nbsp;quickly went off the rails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Various relatives of the brothers, who were at last month\u2019s hearing virtually, already wanted the DA removed from the matter because of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/menendez-family-sues-la-district-attorney-crime-scene-photos-1236368937\/\">the unexpected showing in a previous hearing<\/a>&nbsp;of a brutal and bloody crime scene photograph from 1989 of the siblings\u2019 father Jose Menendez. That situation was inflamed further by the confusion created from the DA\u2019s sudden possession of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/menendez-resentencing-delay-sought-1236370565\/\">supposedly completed parole board risk assessment report<\/a>&nbsp;ordered in February by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\">Gavin Newsom<\/a>&nbsp;as a part of the clemency petition before the governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the judicial equivalent of throwing his hands up in frustration, Judge Jesic cut the two-day resentencing session short two weeks ago and ordered everyone to return on May 9. That 8:30 a.m. hearing to clear up the confusion of the confidential and unfinished parole board report and accusations against the DA\u2019s office could end up being in the judge\u2019s chambers and out of the public eye. Whether that hearing at the Van Nuys Courthouse will even address resentencing or be preoccupied with motions like this recusal also remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is as clear as day is that the Menendez family lawyers are not too impressed at all by the DA\u2019s official response to their recusal motion of last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe only ones honoring the memory of Kitty and Jose Menendez are the victims, which are their 24 family members,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/lawyers\/bryan-j-freedman\/\">Bryan Freedman<\/a> told Deadline this afternoon with reference to the brothers\u2019 parents and the two dozen family members who want to see them free ASAP. \u201cRather than do his real job and take steps to stop the looting, smash-and-grabs, record number of burglaries and other rampant criminal behavior in Los Angeles, DA Hochman would rather book appearances on TV and social media to show that he thinks childhood sexual abuse has no impact on human behavior,\u201d the lawyer added, with a swing at Hochman\u2019s rejection of the Menendez brothers argument they killed their parents in self-defense because of the years of alleged attacks by their music executive father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVerbally abusing the family member victims is not an example of being tough on crime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pulling no punches, Freedman continued: \u201cThis man is out of touch with reality. His position that if Lyle and Erik admit to purported lies made 35 years ago, that he would change his position is preposterous. It may get his face and name in the media, but obviously that factor is not only wrong but has zero impact whatsoever on whether they are likely to commit a dangerous felony in the future.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidst what\u2019s going down in LA Superior Court in regard to the Menendez brothers, it is a June 13 session ordered by Gov. Newsom for each sibling in front of the parole board that might end up being the true deciding factor. Those individual appearances by the now middle-age Erik and Lyle Menendez and the resulting recommendation of their rehabilitations efforts that could see them walk free or die behind bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-c5e5eb96-e301-4849-b042-53407e62b5e9\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week before&nbsp;a hearing that could be pivotal&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Menendez brothers&nbsp;getting out of prison, the&nbsp;Los Angeles District Attorney&nbsp;today slammed the siblings\u2019 lawyers for their \u201cdrastic and desperate step of attempting to recuse the entire Office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney.\u201d \u201cThe defense conflates a conflict of interest with zealous advocacy,\u201d says&nbsp;the 15-page opposition filing&nbsp;Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4051,169,1655,4056],"tags":[656],"class_list":["post-43837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bryan-j-freedman","category-criminal","category-deadline","category-home-hero","category-menendez-brothers","tag-los-angeles-superior-court"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v23.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Menendez Brothers Resentencing: L.A. 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