LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today filed its 132-page detailed response to a 2023 petition for writ of habeas corpus submitted on behalf of Lyle and Erik Menendez, demonstrating the manifest failure, both factually and legally, in the Menendez brothers’ effort to obtain a new trial.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman emphasized the strength of the original convictions and the lack of any legitimate basis for retrial.

“After completing a thorough and exhaustive review of the Menendez brothers’ habeas corpus petition and the alleged ‘new’ evidence presented, we have concluded that this petition does not come close to meeting the factual or legal standard to warrant a new trial,” District Attorney Hochman said. “The overwhelming evidenc

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