LA County's top prosecutor is formally opposing an effort by the Menendez brothers to be granted a new trial.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who has consistently opposed efforts by the convicted killers to be released from prison, submitted his office's response to Erik and Lyle Menendez's habeas petition for a new trial. The brothers has served about 35 years of a life prison sentence for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents in the family's Beverly Hills mansion.

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One of the possible avenues to freedom is the 2023 petition by the brothers' attorneys, who pointed to two new pieces of evidence they contend corroborate the brothers' allegations of long-term sexual abuse at the hands of their father. The petit

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