Menendez brothers resentencing updates: Judge again delays bid for shorter sentence and possible parole

A decide has once more delayed the resentencing listening to for Erik and Lyle Menendez after it started this morning in Los Angeles.

The pair had been imprisoned for the double homicide of their mother and father of their Beverly Hills dwelling. Within the many years since, they’ve gotten an schooling, participated in self-help courses and began numerous assist teams for his or her fellow inmates – all behind bars.

The attorneys have returned to the courtroom the place the Menendez brothers’ resentencing listening to is being held, signaling this afternoon’s recess could come to an finish quickly.

Comply with alongside for reside updates from The Unbiased.

Protection legal professional Mark Geragos says the graphic crime scene photographs proven in court docket final week re-traumatized the Menendez household.

Prosecutors confirmed graphic photographs from the 1989 crime scene in court docket final week.

“He has abused the victims privately, he has abused the victims publicly,” Geragos mentioned of Los Angeles District Legal professional Nathan Hochman whereas chatting with reporters Thursday afternoon, in keeping with Fox Information.

“You had been all right here once they flashed grisly crime scene photographs on the display,” he continued. “It took me a second—usually it could be the DA who jumps up and objects to that. As an alternative, it fell upon the protection to take action.”

Prosecutor Habib Balian had apologized to the Menendez household for displaying the photographs however mentioned it was obligatory as a result of the brothers had dedicated “extraordinarily wicked conduct.”

Decide Michael Jesic then defended Balian and took accountability for permitting the photographs to be proven in court docket with out telling the household first.

Jesic added that these attending the listening to have to be ready for extra probably graphic content material.

The decide known as a two-hour court docket recess at present over a dispute between attorneys about a part of a danger evaluation report on the Menendez brothers launched by California officers.

Protection legal professional Mark Geragos known as it “utterly unfair,” and mentioned the listening to can’t proceed till he has time to overview the doc.

The recess is about to finish throughout the subsequent jiffy, at 1:30 p.m. native time.

Protection legal professional Mark Geragos says Los Angeles District Legal professional Nathan Hochman has “jumped the shark” and expressed frustration with Hochman’s feedback to reporters earlier than the Menendez brothers’ resentencing listening to Thursday.

Geragos mentioned he’s “very near submitting a movement to recuse the District Legal professional.” A movement to recuse entails asking the prosecution to be faraway from the case as a consequence of alleged bias or battle of curiosity.

“That is one other in a sequence of the DA’s workplace abdicating their function,” Geragos informed reporters throughout the court docket recess on Thursday afternoon, in keeping with NBC Information. “They’ve… will say it once more, they’ve jumped the shark.”

The Netflix sequence, which featured 28-year-old Koch as Erik and 25-year-old Nicholas Chavez as Lyle, garnered renewed assist for the brothers, who’ve been combating for his or her launch for the previous 30 years.

Earlier than the two-hour recess, protection legal professional Mark Geragos accused District Legal professional Nathan Hochman of getting a private bias in opposition to the Menendez brothers and condemned him for displaying graphic photographs from the 1989 crime scene in court docket final week.

Geragos claimed prosecutors violated Marsy’s Regulation — a regulation which protects victims’ rights in court docket — by displaying the photographs.

Prosecutor Habib Balian apologized to the Menendez household for displaying the photographs however mentioned it was obligatory as a result of the brothers had dedicated “extraordinarily wicked conduct.”

Decide Michael Jesic then defended Balian and took accountability for permitting the photographs to be proven in court docket with out telling the household first.

Jesic added that these attending the listening to have to be ready for extra probably graphic content material.

“If anybody is uncomfortable they want to consider whether or not they need to be right here,” Jesic mentioned.

Courtroom is in recess till 1:30 p.m. native time, NBC News studies.

This comes after the decide says “no method” a choice will likely be made on the Menendez brothers’ resentencing by the top of the hearings Friday.