Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said Friday he is asking a judge to deny the Menendez brothers' habeas petition requesting a new trial, potentially eliminating one of three possible tracks to an early release.

Lyle and Erik Menendez were found guilty of murdering their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The brothers have spent nearly

Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said Friday that he'll revisit the issue of resentencing the brothers, who are serving life terms for killing their parents in 1989.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman recommended Friday that a judge reject Erik and Lyle Menendez’s request for a new trial in the 1989 killings of their parents – a petition the brothers filed over their claims of new evidence of abuse by their father.

The district attorney of Los Angeles says he not yet decided whether to recommend resentencing Lyle and Erik Menendez.

The family of Erik and Lyle Menendez is pushing back after District Attorney Nathan Hochman, during a press conference, laid out in painstaking detail why the evidence the brothers have offered alleging sexual abuse by their father doesn't mean they should receive a new trial.

L.A. County D.A. Nathan Hochman says he will consider evidence of sexual abuse at the hands of Jose Menendez when Erik and Lyle Menendez make their case for resentencing.

The Menendez brothers have received bad news in their bid to gain their freedom over three decades after the brutal slaying of their parents. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman has formally asked a judge to deny the Menendez brothers’ 2023 habeas corpus petition.