(12 Apr 2025)
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Los Angeles – 11 April 2025
1. Wide of courthouse
2. Various of Menendez brothers’ family walking
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Geragos, Attorney:
"I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but today is a good day. Justice – Justice won over politics. It’s been a long time coming. For anybody who was in the courtroom, it was very difficult to sit and listen to what we witnessed, and we are obviously very thankful to the judge. I couldn’t be prouder of representing this family. They’ve waited a long time to get some justice. And today was actually probably the biggest day since they’ve been in custody."
4. Tracking shot of Anamaria Baralt walking by
5. Tracking shot of attorneys
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anamaria Baralt, Menendez brothers’ cousin:
"Today’s ruling affirms something that should never have been in question. The facts, fairness, and the law still matter. The court made clear that this process isn’t about politics. It’s about truth. It’s just about justice. And it’s about giving people the chance to show who they are now, not just who they were in their worst moment. We’re especially grateful to former DA George Gascon, Nancy Brock, and the entire team who took the time to do a real, rigorous, and fair review of Eric and Lyle’s case. Their conclusion wasn’t based on sympathy or politics. It was based on evidence. They combed through decades of records. They looked at Eric and Lyle’s rehabilitation, their education, their contributions to others inside prison. And they applied the law exactly as it was intended, without bias, without agenda, and with integrity."
7. Various of attorneys
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Anamaria Baralt, Menendez brothers’ cousin:
"We look forward to a full, fair presentation of who Eric and Lyle are today, not just a version frozen in time- in a time of pain and fear, but the whole truth. the growth, the humanity, and the men they’ve become. We’re not naive. We know hope can be fragile. But we believe that the law is on our side. And for today, that’s enough. Thank you for being here."
9. Med of press and cameras
STORYLINE:
Erik and Lyle Menendez’s resentencing hearings can continue despite opposition from the Los Angeles County district attorney, a judge ruled Friday.
They were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole at ages 18 and 21 after being convicted of murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.
Former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón asked a judge last year to change the brothers’ sentence from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life. That would made them immediately eligible for parole because they committed the crime when they were younger than 26.
But Gascón’s successor reversed course. Nathan Hochman submitted a motion last month to withdraw the resentencing request.
“They’ve waited a long time to get some justice, today is actually probably the biggest day since they’ve been incarcerated,” the brothers’ attorney, Mark Geragos said of the family.
While the defense argued they acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
The family’s relationship with Hochman has soured. Most of the brothers’ extended family supports their resentencing.
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