Los Angeles County District Lawyer Nathan Hochman says he’ll NOT recuse himself from the Erik and Lyle Menendez case … regardless of their lawyer calling for Hochman to step apart.

In new authorized docs, obtained by TMZ, Hochman says there is no authorized cause for him to recuse himself … and he blasts the protection for what he sees as a “drastic and determined step” … claiming they’re making an attempt to sidestep the central situation right here … resentencing, which Hochman opposes.

Erik and Lyle’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, beforehand referred to as for Hochman to recuse himself.

Hochman grew up in Beverly Hills and went to the identical highschool because the Menendez Bros … and the Menendez household and Geragos say Hochman has been retraumatizing the Menendez household … alleging he is violating Marsy’s Regulation rights for victims and claiming his choice to indicate crime scene images in an April courtroom listening to was so upsetting it ended up placing an aged relative within the hospital.

Bryan Freedman, the lawyer for the Menendez household, blasted Hochman in a brand new assertion to TMZ, telling us … “Relatively than do his actual job and take steps to cease the looting, smash and grabs, document variety of burglaries and different rampant legal habits in Los Angeles, DA Hochman would fairly e-book appearances on TV and social media to indicate that he thinks childhood sexual abuse has no impression on human habits.”

Freedman provides … “Verbally abusing the member of the family victims is just not an instance of being powerful on crime. This man is out of contact with actuality. His place that if Lyle and Erik admit to purported lies made 35 years in the past, that he would change his place is preposterous. It could get his face and title within the media however clearly that issue is just not solely mistaken however has zero impression in any way on whether or not they’re more likely to commit a harmful felony sooner or later.”

Eirk and Lyle have a courtroom listening to set for subsequent Friday, the place the choose will presumably take into account the recusal movement and tackle the admissibility of a danger evaluation report.

As we have instructed you, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s parole board again in February to conduct a danger evaluation of the brothers earlier than he made any clemency choice.

Newsom says he plans to make use of the report as a part of a June 13 listening to, by which Erik and Lyle are supposed to seem earlier than the board for particular person critiques. After the listening to, the Governor plans to then make his choice on whether or not to grant them clemency.

Erik and Lyle had been convicted of murdering their dad and mom with shotguns of their Beverly Hills house in 1989 and had been sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole.