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Judge Delays Hearing on Menendez Brothers’ Bid for Early Release
A hearing scheduled for mid-December was pushed back to Jan. 30 so the judge and the new L.A. district attorney could have time to review filings in the case.
Reporting from Los Angeles
A judge in Los Angeles said on Monday that a hearing on whether to resentence the brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez would be pushed back until early next year to give the court and a newly elected district attorney more time to review the case.
The hearing, which could lead to the brothers being released after decades in prison, was to be held on Dec. 11. It will now take place on Jan. 30.
“I want the new administration to be able to go through the documents and have a say,” Judge Michael Jesic said on Monday morning at a proceeding in a Los Angeles County courtroom.
The Menendez brothers, convicted in 1996 of killing their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, had been expected to appear in court on Monday by video. But the hearing, which lasted about 40 minutes, went on without them because of technical problems with the video connection.
The case of the Menendez brothers captured the nation’s attention in the 1990s, the shocking violence and allegations of sexual molestation playing out in one of the wealthiest enclaves of the country.
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