Menendez brothers' resentencing hearing postponed due to LA fires

A proceeding to find whether the Menendez brothers should beryllium resentenced much than 3 decades aft sidesplitting their parents has been postponed owed to the ongoing fires crossed the Los Angeles region.

Originally scheduled for aboriginal this month, the proceeding for Erik and Lyle Menendez has been pushed to March, according to an announcement Friday by the county's apical prosecutor.

This is the 2nd clip Nathan Hochman, the caller Los Angeles County District Attorney, has postponed debating the brothers' aboriginal down bars aft his predecessor, George Gascon, recommended they beryllium resentenced and freed connected parole. The brothers are serving a beingness condemnation for the 1989 murders.

The Los Angeles country continues to enactment toward containing the fires, which person killed astatine slightest 27 radical and levelled aggregate communities.

The infamous lawsuit dates backmost to 1989 erstwhile Lyle, 21, and Erik, 18, fatally changeable their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, successful their Beverly Hills mansion.

During their archetypal trial, the defence claimed the brothers acted successful self-defence aft enduring years of intersexual maltreatment by their father. Prosecutors, however, argued that their motive was fiscal gain.

The archetypal trial, which featured abstracted juries for each brother, ended successful mistrials. In 1996, a 2nd proceedings excluded overmuch of the grounds related to maltreatment claims and some brothers were convicted and sentenced to 2 consecutive beingness presumption without the anticipation of parole.

Mr. Hochman, who defeated Mr Gascón successful the November elections, has said helium needed much clip to reappraisal the case, and would not instrumentality a nationalist stance similar his opponent. He planned to denote his determination connected whether his bureau would backmost the resentencing effort connected 30 January. That has present been pushed to March 20.

Mr Hochman campaigned connected eliminating what helium called "pro-criminal, utmost policies" and aimed to prosecute offenses much rigorously to deter crime.

In the aftermath of the deadly fires successful Los Angeles, helium has aggressively gone aft looters, arsonists and radical pretending to beryllium archetypal responders to get into evacuated areas. He's besides deploying teams to affected areas to forestall - and prosecute - security fraudsters targeting wildfire survivors.

On Friday, Mr Hochman's bureau filed arson charges against six men who are accused of igniting blazes successful the aftermath of the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires.