The new Los Angeles County District Attorney has removed the two deputies who sought to reduce the sentences of Lyle and Erik Menendez from his office’s post-conviction unit.
Nathan Hochman was sworn into office last week after trouncing incumbent George Gascón in the November election. The Menendez case is the among the highest-profile matters left for Hochman by the previous administration.
Gascón’s deputies, Nancy Theberge and Brock Lunsford, petitioned a judge in October to reduce the brothers’ sentences of life without parole. The brothers have served 34 years for the 1989 murders of their parents, which resurfaced in popular culture with the release of the Netflix series “Monsters”
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