The couple was imprisoned for life after a successful legal drama three decades ago that detailed the murders of Joseph and Kitty Menéndez in the luxurious mansion of Beverly Hills of the family, which the brothers organized to look like a blow of mafia.
But a growing campaign to free them, given the new life of a successful Netflix series, has followed a triple strategy: clemency, a new test or resentment.
The prosecutors in Los Angeles had previously supported, but the recently installed district prosecutor Nathan Hochman, who has already opposed a new trial, on Monday said there should not be resonention.
“Observing whether or not the menénzes have exhibited the complete vision and complete responsibility of their crimes, they have not done so,” Hochman told reporters during a press conference.
“They have told 20 different lies, they have actually admitted four of them, but 16 lies made remain without recognizing.”
Hochman said he was asking the court, which he is expected to feel on March 20 and 21, to withdraw a support motion presented by his predecessor in “the interests of justice.”
Erik, now 54, and Lyle, 57, have spent more than three decades after bars.
During two judgments in the 1990s who seized the United States, prosecutors painted the shotgun murders of their parents as a cold offer of men who then just, Lyle was 21 years old and Erik was 18, to have in their hands the fortune of $ 14 million of their parents.
But their lawyers described the 1989 murders as an act of desperate self -defense defense by young people undergoing years of sexual abuse and psychological violence at the hands of a tyrannical father and an accomplice mother.
The case saw a great increase in renewed interest last year with the launch of Netflix “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story”.
Last month, Hochman exposed his opposition to the attempt of the brothers to obtain a new trial.
In a forensic presentation on Monday, he used much of the same reasoning to establish his position on resentment, which depended on the continuous lack of will of the brothers to clarify their crimes.
Hochman said the men had offered five disparate explanations about the death of their parents, ranging from an initial statement that it was a blow from the mafia to the self -defense in which they finally were based on the trial.
Actually, he said, the murders were meticulously planned and cold blood.
He said that the murders were followed with attempts to destroy a will that they thought would take them out of parents’ fortune, and months of deception, including attempts to make people in court for them.
But, he said, his office would be prepared to visit the idea of resiving in the future if the brothers “accept the complete responsibility of all their criminal actions.”
The third route to the freedom of the brothers falls to the governor of California Gavin Newsom, who has the power to grant clemency at any time.
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