Erik and Lyle Menéndez’s family members have filed a complaint against the District Prosecutor’s Office, claiming that he violated the Law on the Protection Rights of a victim after showing images of the graphic scene in the Court.
Justice for Erik and Lyle Coalition, an initiative led by the family that advocates the liberation of Erik and Lyle Méndez, announced that it has filed a formal complaint, accusing the office or the law of victims of the Nathan Hochman district prosecutor.
The family said the presentation continues to the “unexpected and graphic screen” of the District Prosecutor at a audience of the April 11 court that took the aunt of the brothers, Terry Baralt, to be hospitalized.
“We never imagined that we would have to fight to be treated with respect and dignity. But last Friday, our whole family was once shit,” the family wrote in a statement.
The brothers have reviewing audiences scheduled for April 17 and 18 in the murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez, whom they shot at their home in Beverly Hills in 1989.
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The Menéndez brothers, on the left, and Los Angeles da Nathan Hochman (Getty images)
The family motion alleges that the actions of the District prosecutor were “free and needles in needles” and had no legitimate purpose that is not “inflamed emotions to achieve the maximum value of ‘shock’.”
“Without prior notice, the District Prosecutor’s Office showed thick and graphic photos of the bodies of our loved ones. Without notices, without compassion, without humanity. Our whole family was first reaumatized by the Shorty graph, when again, when again?”
The motion also accused the district prosecutor’s office to treat family members as “second -class victims” due to a political disagreement between Hochman and the family.
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In a previous statement shared with Fox News Digital, Hochman’s office said prosecutors did not intend to “cause anguish or pain” to the audience attendees.
“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.
The family added that Baralt remains in intensive care in a local hospital after the shock of the audience on Friday.
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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)
“Marsy’s law is assumed to protect the victims, all the victims. Ironic, the person responsible for ensuring that our rights are protected is the prosecutor’s victim’s services coordinator,” said the family. “Kathy Cady is responsible, however, given its clear conflict of interest, it was supposed to appoint an unbvent coordinator for our family, which has not yet happened.”
Cady, a lawyer for the rights of the victims for a long time and current Director of Victims Services, the former district prosecutor of La, George Gascon, several times for violating Marsy’s law.
He also previously represented the uncle of the Menéndez brothers, Milton Andersen, who was the only relative who vocally opposed his release until he died for the last time.
“It is the continuous belief of Milton Andersen that sexual abuse statements were formed, and were false, and he believes that the drug He was issued by the jury and the correct sentence was also committed, “Cady prevently told Fox News Digital.
“Kathy Cady, one of the main defenses in California, previously represented one of the members of the Menéndez family,” said Hochman’s office in a statement on Tuesday. “In January 2025, Mrs. Cady returned to the Office of the District Prosecutor of Los Angeles County as director of the Victim Services Office.
“Once the Nathan Hochman District Prosecutor assumed the position on December 3, 2024, Mrs. Cady has been expelled from any participation or contact with the Senéndez case, through the present. Consequently, Mrs. Cady did not play Rone.
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A photo without date of the Menéndez family, as appears on the screen, a panel in Crimecon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 2, 2024. The Lyle and Erik brothers were convicted of fatally shooting their parents in 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Andersen, through his lawyer, said he rejected defense claims on child abuse and agreed with trial prosecutors, who showed that the brothers went to a $ 700,000 spree following the death of their parents.
The Menéndez brothers and their supporters have been pressing for a resentment audience, saying that the brothers were unfairly condemned to life imprisonment in 1996 for killing their two parents, José and Kitty Sendez, in their Beverly Hills Home in 1989.
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Lyle and Erik Menéndez use prison prison monkeys Duration of their judgment for murder in Los Angeles. (Ted Soqui/Sygma through Getty Images)
Both Lyle and Erik Menéndez have since presented in documentaries and social networks claiming that their father sexually abused them, offering a Different narrative of the murders That history told its lawyers in the 1990s.
Hochman previously He told ABC News That would be a resistance of consultants if both brothers “sincerely and unequivocally admit, for the first time for the first time, the complete range of their criminal activity and all the lies that have to say it.”
He said in a statement last week that the brothers “have opted for the third and the stubborn remain crazy in their bunker of lies, deception and denials of more than 30 years.”
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Lyle, Left, and Erik Menéndez sit down with defense lawyer Leslie Abramson in Beverly Hills Municipal Court duration of a hearing, November 26, 1990. (AP Photo/Nick UT)
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.”
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.
If the judge decides to resent the Méndez brothers, it will be at the height of the State Probation Board to consult his release.
Because they were less than 26 years old at the time of murders, according to the current law of California, the new 50 -year sentences to life would be immediately eligible for a hearing in probation.
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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 potential path separated out of prison.
“Let’s solve José and Kitty, and we live with that complaint every day. But now we also know the years of suffering and trauma that Erik and Lyle crossed that none of us was full at that time, “the family explained. They apologized” T apologized to everyone, after having spent the last 35 years becoming better men worthy of a second life opportunity. Nor does it mean that we have stopped crying. It means that we have chosen to maintain space for loss and forgiveness.
“Life is not in black and white. It is messy, painful and complicated. But believing in redemption does not mean that we have ceased to be victims. It does not mean that we should be treated with contempt.”