The Menéndez brothers resentment audience will be next week; Risk assessment says they pose a moderate risk if released
The long -awaited resentment hearing of Erik and Lyle Menéndez will advance on May 13 and 14, a judge ruled on Friday, since the new details about the supposed behavior of the brothers after the bars were revealed in the Court.
A hearing was held on Friday to determine whether the case of resentment of the brothers should include information on the newly completed risk assessment of the California probation Board, which was carried out as part of a separate clemency route. The risk assessment occurred at the request of Governor Gavin Newsom as part of the brothers’ clemency offer; The brothers are chasing multiple ways of freedom, and the path of clemency is separated from the resentment path.
Judge Michael Jesus indicated that he will take part in the risk assessment, but that the information in you is preliminary and the lawyers cannot question the forensic psychologists who performed the exams.
In this archive photo of April 12, 1991, Lyle, Left, and Erik Menéndez present to the court a preliminary hearing held in Beverly Hills, California.
Kevork Djansian/AP, file
The risk assessment said that Erik and Lyle Menéndez represent a moderate risk for the community if they are released.
The evaluation revealed that the brothers had illegal cell phones in prison, among many other violations. Erik Menéndez had a phone as recently as January of this year, that the Los Angeles County District Prosecutor Nathan Hochman, stressed during the resentment effort when he should have had his best behavior.
Erik Menéndez supposedly bought and changed drugs and supposedly helped inmates commit fiscal fraud years ago, according to the evaluation. Psychologists found that Lyle Menéndez was a narcissistic.
The evaluation said that the brothers had the probability of not following the law out of prison if they ignored the rules in prison.
Jesus seemed to rule out many of the findings.
The evaluation probably includes the positive work that the brothers have done in prison as well. The predecessor of Hochman, George Gascón, has praised them to promote their education, rehabilitate and start programs to help other inmates.
This combination of two reserve photos provided by the California corrections department shows Erik Menéndez, on the left and Lyle Menéndez.
California corrections department through AP
Also at Friday’s hearing, defense lawyer Mark Geragos withdrew his attempt to get Hochman the case after making accusations in his background and claiming that the DA hired a public relations of crisis to chase the brothers. Hochman denied it, saying that the public relations firm was not for the brothers but for its campaign, and that the public relations firm ended its work after being elected in November.
Friday’s hearing followed a dramatic appearance in the Court on April 17, which initially became the resentment hearing of the brothers. However, on April 16, the District Prosecutor’s Office in a presentation urged Jesus to delay the resentment hearing if he could not obtain a copy of the Risk Assessment Report on time for the Court.
Hochman, who wants to keep the brothers after bars, argued that risk assessment is relevant to the case of resontent, while Geragos noticed a strong desire for the evaluation to be used only for the probation hearing of June 13.
For the resentment hearing next week, Geragos said he will have seven witnesses instead of his 20 previously planned witnesses. Two experts are expected to testify.
Erik and Lyle Menéndez, who fulfill life imprisonment without the possibility of probation for the 1989 murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez, support more than 20 family members in their efforts to be released after 35 years after bars.
His case of resontent won impulse in October when Gascon announced that he supported resentment.
Gascón recommended that the life sentences be eliminated from the brothers without the possibility that probation were eliminated, and said they should be sentenced by murder, which would be a 50 -year sentence to life imprisonment. Because both brothers were less than 26 years old at the time of crimes, they would be eligible for probation immediately with the new prayer.
The Gascón office said that their resentment recommendations take into account many factors, including rehabilitation in prison and abuse or trauma that contributed to the crime.
In November, Gascón lost his re -election commitment to Hochman, who in March presented a motion to withdraw the request for resentment, qualifying the personal defense claims of the brothers of a litany of “lies.” The judge denied Hochman’s request.
