The Menendez Brothers resentencing listening to has ended for the day … and won’t be continued on Friday, as initially scheduled.

The subsequent listening to is scheduled for Could 9, and can tackle the admissibility of a danger evaluation report … and the brothers’ protection lawyer Mark Geragos is anticipated to file for L.A. County District Lawyer Nathan Hochman to be personally recused from the case. Hochman grew up in Beverly Hills and went to the identical highschool because the Menendez Bros.

In a information convention after right this moment’s listening to, Geragos repeatedly accused the D.A.’s Workplace — and particularly Hochman — of retraumatizing the Menendez household. One member of the family was reportedly hospitalized after crime scene images had been proven in court docket on April 11. Bryan Freedman, who represents members of the Menendez household, stated he needs to make sure their Marsy’s Regulation rights are revered.

Tamara Menendez, a cousin, spoke at Thursday’s post-hearing information convention, and stated she felt belittled by Hochman in a one-on-one assembly … prompting Geragos to name it an abusive assault on her and declare Hochman is “serially” traumatizing the household.

No testimony will likely be heard within the Could 9 listening to, although the household is invited to attend. Whether or not the listening to is open to the general public continues to be being decided. Geragos nonetheless hasn’t seen the danger evaluation report, and is ready to obtain it.

Hochman himself filed a last-minute movement Wednesday evening in L.A. County Superior Courtroom to forestall right this moment’s much-anticipated listening to from going ahead, arguing the court docket wants time to evaluation the California parole board’s danger evaluation report for Erik and Lyle Menendez. The choose rejected that movement and right this moment’s listening to went ahead.

As you recognize, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the state’s parole board again in February to conduct a danger evaluation of the brothers earlier than any clemency determination could possibly be made.

Newsom plans to make use of the report as a part of a June 13 listening to, by which Erik and Lyle will every seem earlier than the board for his or her particular person evaluations. After the listening to, Newsom will then make his determination on whether or not to grant clemency to the brothers.

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