Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman filed a 132-page response outlining his office's opposition to the Menendez brothers' petition for a new trial.

Lyle and Erik Menendez have been serving sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the August 1989 murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez. They fatally shot their parents at the family's Beverly Hills home, admitting to the killings over the course of two trials as they claimed self-defense and said they feared for their lives following years of physical and sexual abuse.

The Menendez brothers' attorneys filed the habeas petition, a legal action that requests a new trial, in May 2023. They cited two new pieces of evidence backing the brothers' allegations of abuse, including a 1988 letter writ

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