California Governor Gavin Newsom has kicked the can down the highway within the path of the brand new L.A. County District Legal professional … concerning Erik and Lyle Menendez.
Newsom’s workplace simply launched an announcement … “The Governor respects the function of the District Legal professional in guaranteeing justice is served and acknowledges that voters have entrusted District Legal professional-elect Hochman to hold out this accountability. The Governor will defer to the D.A.-elect’s evaluate and evaluation of the Menendez case prior to creating any clemency choices.”
As we reported, the outgoing D.A., George Gascón, has supported resentencing Erik and Lyle and is in favor of their launch. The newly-elected D.A., Nathan Hochman, has stated he will not weigh in on how he needs to proceed till he totally opinions the case.
A listening to is ready for December 11, the place a decide will hear arguments on whether or not to re-sentence the Menendez brothers … and that would set off a parole board listening to that would set them free.
TMZ broke the story … Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, will ask the decide to change the conviction from homicide to manslaughter. Since Erik and Lyle have served 3 instances the utmost sentence for manslaughter, they might be instantly free males.
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As for Newsom, it is unclear if he’ll anticipate the decide to decide earlier than he weighs in on clemency, however on condition that the case has change into an actual sizzling potato, we’re guessing Newsom’s gonna wait till the gavel comes down.
