Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman defended his office's work after a judge agreed with them that the Menendez brothers should not be granted a new trial.

Citing information that then-teen brothers feared sexual abuse by their father, the Menendez brothers filed a habeas corpus petition seeking a new trial. That new trial, however, was denied on Monday.

Calling the Menendez's pleas for a new trial in the 1989 slayings of their parents a "meritless motion," Hochman explained that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan's ruling affirmed his office's decision.

"He basically said that the evidence alleged here is not so compelling that it would've produced a reasonable doubt in the mind of at least one juror," Hochman said. "That is how deficient, how merit

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