The Los Angeles County District Authorized skilled’s Office is apologizing to the Menendez family for not giving superior warning that crime scene footage might be confirmed at a present listening to … nevertheless, they add the choice was made to level out the entire actuality.
In an announcement to TMZ … the L.A. County D.A.’s Office tells us they apologize for the upsetting nature of the crime scene footage they confirmed — together with it wasn’t the office’s intention to upset the relations.
Nonetheless, we’re knowledgeable these hearings are “presupposed to be a spot the place the truth, no matter how painful, is dropped at gentle” … so, the photographs wished to be confirmed to have the ability to depict the brutality of the crime.
The D.A.’s office locations part of the blame on Erik and Lyle‘s request for clemency … explaining that the motion was on a regular basis certain to “set off emotions for all these concerned in a case that had lied dormant legally for over 18 years.”
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The office notes that motions filed by prosecutors have sometimes described the killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez … along with how the two brothers killed their dad and mother with 13 images fired from a shotgun from shut differ and totally different grisly particulars.
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Each method, the L.A. County D.A’s office continues, “To the extent that the photographic depiction of this conduct upset any of the Menendez relations present in court docket docket, we apologize for not giving prior warning that the conduct might be described intimately not solely in phrases however moreover by towards the legislation scene image.”
The L.A. County D.A.’s Office moreover defends the conduct of District Authorized skilled Nathan Hochman … stating he met with larger than two dozen relations of Erik and Lyle for larger than three hours — one factor they declare no prior D.A. has achieved for the family in extra than three a very long time.
The assertion ends with a blanket set off warning … telling individuals who discover themselves coming to the listening to to “be prepared for a number of of the powerful particulars and footage surrounding these tragic circumstances.”
The assertion doesn’t embody a response to the allegation that exhibiting the crime scene footage all through Friday’s resentencing listening to despatched Terry Baralt to the hospital.
As we knowledgeable you … the 85-year-old aunt of Erik and Lyle was found unresponsive in her lodge room this weekend — and, the family says she’s in very important scenario because of the stress spherical this trial, notably in regards to the gruseome footage.
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Bryan Freedman — the lawyer representing the family — slammed prosecutors for exhibiting these images … calling the switch a “despicable movement [that] was a clear violation of Marsy’s regulation which requires absolute empathy in the direction of victims.”
Mark Geragos — Erik and Lyle’s lawyer who cohosts our “2 Indignant Males” podcast — made associated statements all through a info conference Friday after a select granted Erik and Lyle a resentencing listening to subsequent week.
We’ve got reached out to Freedman and Geragos in regards to the D.A.’s office’s apology … so far, no phrase once more.
