California Gov. Gavin Newsom will not make any clemency decisions about convicted murderers Erik and Lyle Menendez until District Attorney-elect Nathan Hochman completes his review and analysis of the case, the governor’s office said in a statement Monday.
While resentencing for the brothers was supported by outgoing D.A. George Gascón following new evidence of sexual abuse and the success of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix hit “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and its coinciding documentary “The Menendez Brothers,” the newly elected Hochman has remained more conservative in his view of the case.
“You’ve really got to get beyond the Netflix documentary,” Hochman told “Good