The Menendez brothers won’t be going free anytime soon if LA’s hard-bitten new district attorney gets his way.
Prosecutor Nathan Hochman refused to support the resentencing of Lyle and Eric Menendez — because the infamous brothers have “lied to everyone for the last 30 years.”
Hochman on Monday asked a court to to withdraw his predecessor’s motion to resentence the killer kin and make them eligible for parole after they executed their parents with shotguns in 1989.
“The Menendez brothers have never come clean and admitted that they lied about their self-defense,” Hochman said at a press conference.
LA DA Nathan Hochman speaks during a news conference about the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez, in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 2025. AFP via Getty Images
The Menendez brothers will be resentenced for the murders of their parents. AP“We are requesting that the prior district attorney’s motion for resentencing be withdrawn.”
He also blasted their attempts to get out of prison — suggesting that they need to “come clean” about what really happened in their family’s Beverley Hills mansion before he could consider supporting their resentencing.
A resentencing hearing on March 20 will go ahead as planned but now without his predecessor George Gascón’s recommendation to lighten their current sentences of life in prison without parole and resentence them to 50 years to life.
With the more than 30 years they’ve already spent behind bars, Gascon’s resentencing request would’ve made them immediately eligible for parole.
Lyle and Erik Menendez, 57 and 54, have long claimed that they pumped their parents Jose and Kitty full of birdshot on an August night 35 years ago because they were fearful their abusive father might kill them.
Their case recently became a cause celebre among the true crime set in recent months after a Netflix documentary and new evidence that they were sexually abused by their father.
Jose and Kitty Menendez were murdered in 1989. IMDBThey’ve since gone as high as Gov. Gavin Newsom to seek clemency for the murders and appeared to be looking at freedom thanks to former ex-DA Gascón’s push to review their sentences.
But Hochman — who booted soft-on-crime Gascón from office in the November election – was unimpressed by their pleas.
“The basis for that request is that the prior motion did not examine or consider whether the Menendez brothers have exhibited full insight and taken complete responsibility for their crimes by continuing for the past over 30 years to lie about their claims of self-defense,” Hochman said.
He offered a blistering assessment of the case against the brothers during the conference Monday, highlighting at least 16 times the brothers had lied about the murders.
Those lies began with the 911 call they first placed shortly after killing their parents, Hochman explained, and carried on through their two trials and into their incarceration.
The brothers have been behind bars almost continuously since they were arrested in 1990.
Their first trial ended in a mistrial over a deadlocked jury in 1994, but two years later they were found guilty of first-degree murder.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in downtown Los Angeles, Monday, March 10, 2025. APThe brothers’ relatives slammed Hochman’s position.
“Let’s be clear: Erik and Lyle are not the same young boys they were more than 30 years ago,” the Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition said in a statement Monday.
“They have apologized for the horrific actions they took. They have apologized to us. And, they have demonstrated their atonement through actions that have helped improve countless lives. Yet, DA Hochman is effectively asking for them to publicly apologize to a checklist of actions they took in a state of shock and fear.”






