California Governor Gavin Newsom has kicked the can down the highway within the route of the brand new L.A. County District Lawyer … relating to Erik and Lyle Menendez.
Newsom’s workplace simply launched an announcement … “The Governor respects the role of the District Attorney in ensuring justice is served and recognizes that voters have entrusted District Attorney-elect Hochman to carry out this responsibility. The Governor will defer to the D.A.-elect’s review and analysis of the Menendez case prior to making any clemency decisions.”
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 desires to proceed till he absolutely critiques 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 might set off a parole board listening to that might 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 await the decide to decide earlier than he weighs in on clemency, however provided that the case has turn out to be an actual sizzling potato, we’re guessing Newsom’s gonna wait till the gavel comes down.
