Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman recommended that the courts deny the Menendez brothers’ habeas petition on Friday, claiming that new evidence presented by the convicted brothers “could be part of a continuum of lies.”
The DA specifically noted in a press conference Friday that the new evidence presented by the Menendez brothers’ council, a 1988 letter from Erik Menendez to his cousin Andy Cano, is not timely in the new trial, declaring it inadmissible in court.
“To say that this letter was not discovered until after the trial, as it’s been alleged in the defense papers, we believe, is just wrong,” Hochman says.
The letter was first introduced in a 2015 Barbara Walters interview, but it was not filed as new evidence for the trial until May 2023.
“The notion that this letter could be part of a continuum of lies and deceit and fabricating stories required us to go back into the history of the Menendez case to analyze whether or not that would be true,” the district attorney added.
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