Menendez-Brüder: Prosecutor rejects new negotiations

The menendez brothers who have become world famous by the Netflix series “Monster” last year have to cope with a bitter setback: The new district prosecutor of Los Angeles, Nathan Hochman, spoke to a new procedure on Friday against an application by the two Americans out of. The lawyer expressed significant doubts about the newly introduced evidence of the Menendez lawyers.

The case had attracted international attention again in 2024 through the Netflix production “Monster: The History of Lyle and Erik Menendez” and accompanying documentation. The brothers then saw many spectators in a new light.

The 54 and 57 -year -old brothers have been sitting behind bars since 1990. They were arrested half a year after a shocking bloody deed in the Nobelviertel Beverly Hills. There they shot their wealthy parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in their parents’ living room. So far the crime is undisputed. However, the brothers still advocate having been abused by their father for years and having acted in self -defense. Her mother covered her husband.

According to Hochman, his team viewed more than 50,000 pages of old process documents, advised himself to investigators and investigators and spoke to family members of the brothers. The public prosecutor is currently checking another application for a possible new judgment with a lower sentence.

Initially, the brothers had denied the crime and lived the first few months after the crime due to the millions in Saus and Braus. When the crime could be demonstrated, they said that they had been sexually, mentally and physically abused by their parents for years and had acted out of fear of them. In the first criminal trial against millionaire sons there were descriptions of years of abuse by the father. But in the end the procedure burst – the jury could not unanimously agree on a judgment in 1994.

In a second trial, the brothers were guilty of double murder in 1996 and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment without the possibility of release. In this procedure, the responsible judge largely prohibited statements about the alleged sexual abuse.

The case has moved back into global headlines through the Netflix productions. A growing number of supporters, including Kim Kardashian (44), are committed to the release of the brothers. She wrote last year: “I spent time with Lyle and Erik. They are not monsters. They are friendly, intelligent and honest men.”

A new court hearing is planned for the end of March. Hochman’s predecessor as a district prosecutor, George Gascón, had campaigned for a new sentence last year.