An old woman from Lyle and Erik Menéndez is in intensive care after prosecutors showed graphic images of the crime scene that door to the brothers audience on Friday, according to a family spokesman.
Justice for the Erik and Lyle coalition, an initiative led by the family that advocates the release of the brothers, requests immediate responsibility and supervision after a “disturbing and reckless decision” by the office of the Los Angeles Office, duration duration duration of duration of duration duration duration duration of duration duration duration duration of the duration of the duration of the duration. Hospital.
“We are devastated by sharing that Terry Baralt has hospitalized and is in critical condition after the cruel and careless behavior of the Los Angeles District Prosecutor in court,” said a family statement. “No physical pain has prevented him from being there for his nephews. But the exhibition placed by the district prosecutor’s office pushed their attacks.”
Baralt, who is José Méndez’s sister, is fighting colon cancer, but traveled from her home in New Jersey to Los Angeles to support her nephews in her audience, where the family said she was forced to witness graphic images, including her brother’s body.
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The family and supporters of Erik and Lyle Méndez are out of Courthhouse after an audience in the case of the brothers on Friday, April 11, 2025 in Los Angeles. (Photo AP/Damian Dovarganes) (Associated Press)
“Without prior notice, prosecutors chose to show a graphic and united image of José’s body directly in front of us, his surviving family. No one prepared us. There was no warning, no humanity, only shock and painful ended in people whose, who, who, who, who, Hasehy, whose whose. He continued.
The family spokesman shared with Fox News Digital that Baralt remains in a critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital.
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“This was simply cruel. It was a clear violation of our rights,” the family wrote. “The exhibition was retraumatizing, completely avoidable, and we believe it was intentional. The District Prosecutor’s Office knew what the law requested and deliberately chose to ignore it. We are holding the issue of the complete response and the deep Pead Pead Pead Pead Pead Pead Pead sitting cannot be put into words.”
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Erik and Lyle Menéndez’s aunt, Joan Vandermolen, arrives to attend an audience at the Van Nuys Justice Palace in Los Angeles, on Monday, November 25, 2024. (Photo AP/Damian Dovarganes)
The Los Angeles District Prosecutor’s Office, Nathan Hochman, shared a statement with Fox News Digital saying that prosecutors did not intend to “cause anguish or pain” to those attending the hearing.
“To the extent that the photographic representation of this conduct would alter any of the members of the Menéndez family present in the Court, we apologize for not previously noticing that the conduct would be described in detail not only in words, but also the crime.
Hochman’s office also explained that the decision of the Menéndez brothers to present an habeas request in 2023 and a clemency application and resentful in 2024 “certainly triggered emotions for all those concerns in a case after staying for the forest.”
“We never intend to cause anguish or pain to people who attend a court,” said Hochman’s office. “We understand that the nature of the evidence of the atrocious double murders was deeply emotional. However, by design, thesis audiences are destined to be a place where the truth, regardless of how painful, comes to light.
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Lyle, left, and Erik Menéndez sit down with defense lawyer Leslie Abramson, on the right, in the municipal court of Beverly Hills during an audience, November 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick UT)
The judge of the Superior Court of County of the, Judge Michael Jesus issued a victory to the Friday hearing of the Méndez Brothers, deciding not to withdraw his request for a new trial.
The decision occurs after the District prosecutor Nathan Hochman told journalists on March 10 that he sought to withdraw the motion of former District prosecutor George Gascon for a resentment hearing, which he presented days before losing re -election.
The resentment procedures will continue on April 17 and 18, said Jesus.
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The Menéndez brothers and their supporters have pressed for a resentment audience, saying that the brothers were unfairly condemned to life imprisonment in 1996 for killing their two parents, José and Kitty Menéndez, at his home in Beverly Hills in 1989.
Since then, both Lyle and Erik Menéndez have presented themselves in documentaries and social networks stating that their sexuple father abused them, offering a different narrative of the murders that the story that their lawyers said in the 1990s.
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Tammi Menéndez’s wife, Erik Menéndez, and Erik Menéndez’s walk, near Van Nuys Courthouse West, the day of an audience in the Erik and Lyle Menéndez box on whether to reconsider the first end, 20, US User, User, User, Usendez, Uséndez, Uséndez, User, Uséndez, Uséndez, Uséndez, Uséndez. (Reuters/Daniel Cole)
Hochman previously He told ABC News That would consider that the brothers “sincerely and unequivocally admit, for the first time in 30 years, the full range of their criminal activity and all the lies they have to have.”
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The district prosecutor wrote in his motion that he believes that the Méndez brothers “have repeatedly song about the case, their parents and their interactions with whiteness.”
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The deputy prosecutor of Habib District Dancing is directed to the Court in front of a photo of the Menéndez family shown on a screen in the Superior Court in Van Nuys, California, on Friday 11 of 2025. (Bill Robles)
His first judgment ended in a null trial, when jurors could not agree on their destiny. After a second trial in the mid -1990s, in which some of his evidence on the Alleged sexual abuse It was excluded, the jurors agreed with the prosecutors that their reason was greed.
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If the judge decides to resent the Méndez brothers, he will go to the State’s probation board to consult his release.
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They are scheduled to appear before the Board on June 13 as part of a comprehensive risk assessment report ordered by the governor of California Gavin Newsom, who is considering the clemency application of the brothers, a separate potter Potter Pathon.
Michael Ruiz and Audrey Conklin of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
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