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3 days, 18 hours ago

They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free

LA Times

After spending 17 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Lombardo Palacios walks out of the Los Angeles County courthouse a free man with his mother, Claudia Ortiz. In a dramatic courtroom scene that one wrongly convicted woman called “a Christmas miracle,” a Los Angeles County judge on Friday vacated the murder sentences of two people — …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?

LA Times

In 2020, the Jewish haven of Pico-Robertson voted for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, taking its place among the large swath of liberal Westside communities. On the Monday after the election, there weren’t many Trump signs left around the neighborhood, but there were plenty of Nathan Hochman signs — a potential insight into the tough-on-crime priorities of Pico-Robertson voters. “Trump’s …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Menendez brothers’ aunts beg for their release as judge delays resentencing hearing

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Erik Menendez, left, and …

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4 weeks ago

Lyle Menendez's age gap romance with young British student in turmoil amid claims he is a 'prison wife' to muscle-bound convict

Daily Mail

Convicted killer Lyle Menendez is reportedly the 'prison wife' of another muscle-bound, goateed convict, despite being in a relationship with a British university student. Lyle Menendez, 56, is said to have become a 'prison wife' to another inmate at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, California, where he is serving out his life sentence for killing his …

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4 weeks ago

Menendez brothers should be freed, two of their murdered parents’ sisters tell court

LA Times

A decision on whether to resentence brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez for the shotgun killings of their parents was delayed Monday until after the holidays. With the two brothers attending Monday’s hearing via a web link, Jesic allowed two family matriarchs — the oldest sisters of Jose and Kitty Menendez — to provide testimony in person. “I think it’s time …

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4 weeks ago

Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison

LA Times

Erik Menendez, center, listens to his attorney Leslie Abramson, as his brother Lyle looks on in Beverly Hills in 1991. “The methodology to study that case is the same whether it gets media attention or not,” Hochman said Saturday on “Fox & Friends.” “You got to speak to the prosecutors, law enforcement, victim family members and the defense, and only …

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1 month ago

Inside Menendez Brothers' California prison Thanksgiving

Hindustan Times

Brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez are both serving life sentences without parole for fatally shooting their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills homes. This week, California Gov Gavin Newsom said that he’ll be holding off his decision on their clemency request until incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman reviews the more than three decades old …

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1 month ago

Menendez brother's prison romance with 35-years-younger blonde British student

Daily Mail

Convicted murderer Lyle Menendez is having a clandestine fling from his prison cell with a British university student he met online, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Lyle Menendez, 56, started an affair with 21-year-old British university student Milly Bucksey and had her come all the way from Manchester to visit him in prison on September 14 Lyle's secret affair with the …

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1 month ago

California governor will not make clemency decision for Menendez brothers until new DA reviews case

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he won’t make a clemency decision on the murder convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez until newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman reviews the nearly 35-year-old case. Gascón, who was supported by Newsom, lost reelection this month, so the governor said he would give the incoming district attorney time …

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1 month ago

Newsom delays Menendez brothers clemency decision until after LA's new DA Hochman reviews the case

Daily Mail

California governor Gavin Newsom will delay a decision on whether to grant the Menendez brothers clemency until after Los Angeles' new DA reviews the case. The current DA, George Gascón, asked a judge last month to resentence Lyle and Erik, who were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in 1996 for the first degree murder of Jose and …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: I voted for George Gascón in 2020. I’m glad to see him defeated in 2024.

LA Times

To the editor: In the 2020 election, I voted for George Gascón for district attorney in the hope that he might reform the justice system in Los Angeles County and take a more humane approach to those arrested, especially the many minority youths caught up in it. The outgoing district attorney, defeated by Nathan Hochman, never seemed to grasp the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Mountain fire is scorching Ventura County. Here’s what we know

LA Times

Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Here is what we know as of as of Friday morning: The fire has burned more than 20,400 acres Containment is at 7% More than 5,000 homes are under evacuation orders or warnings, according to estimates from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, according to estimates from the Ventura County Sheriff’s …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

California voters turn away from progressive criminal justice policies

China Daily

By RENA LI in Los Angeles | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2024-11-08 12:14 In a rebuke of progressive criminal justice policies, California voters on Tuesday rejected a lenient approach by some elected officials and also approved an anti-crime ballot question. From Los Angeles to Oakland, election results showed that Californians are prioritizing public safety, in a shift toward more traditional approaches …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Menendez brothers' freedom bid could be thwarted after voters fired LA DA George Gascon

Daily Mail

The Menendez brothers' freedom bid could be thwarted after Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón lost his re-election bid on November 5. Hochman has not yet revealed his stance on the Menendez brothers - who are currently serving life sentences without parole for the murders of their parents Jose Menendez and Mary Louise 'Kitty' Menendez. The Menendez brothers freedom …

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Tide shifts against criminal justice reform among California voters

LA Times

The 2024 election results in California include the passage of a tough-on-crime ballot measure, along with confirmed or likely defeats for two progressive district attorneys and an initiative to give prisoners more labor rights. Dan Schnur, a former advisor to Republican politicians in California who teaches political communications at USC, said that since the last election, “the culture in both …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump wins. Control of the House could come down to California. And other results we know so far

LA Times

Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Trump won, Republicans took the Senate and control over the House could come down to California Donald Trump will return to the White House after securing the 270 electoral college votes needed to defeat Kamala Harris, marking an astounding political comeback for a candidate who was criminally convicted and twice …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

New Los Angeles DA vows to reverse predecessor’s ‘social experiments’

Politico

But Hochman stopped short of casting his campaign as a repudiation of criminal justice reform, instead focusing his campaign squarely on Gascón and promising to restore a district attorney’s office that has been roiled by internal rancor over Gascón’s progressive policies. “I have worked for five different district attorneys, both Democrat and Republican,” said Jessie McGrath, a Los Angeles County …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Election day has arrived. Here are a few key races to follow

LA Times

A woman fills out a ballot Monday at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk office in Norwalk. In Los Angeles County, Measure A would enact a half-percent sales tax to fund homeless services, doubling and replacing the current quarter-percent sales tax in place through Measure H. Half of those surveyed said they would vote for Measure A, or already had …

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Nathan Hochman wins race for Los Angeles County D.A., beating George Gascón

LA Times

Nathan Hochman addresses supporters at Il Pastiao in Beverly Hills on election night. Gascón swept into office in 2020 on a promise of reform and restorative justice, but Hochman — a former federal prosecutor and defense attorney — has spent months painting the incumbent as responsible for increases in crime and homelessness around L.A. Gascón’s supporters and criminologists dispute that …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

L.A. D.A. Gascón made strides in prosecuting police. Would a Hochman win change that?

LA Times

Chiquita Twyman didn’t think she’d ever see justice for her younger brother, Ryan. “When I speak to police officers I make it crystal clear, ‘When you cross the line, you will be prosecuted.’” But Hochman, who worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles for years before becoming a defense attorney, hasn’t prosecuted a police officer in nearly three …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

D.A. supports Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency after nearly 35 years behind bars

LA Times

Los Angeles County Dist. George Gascón said Wednesday that he supports the Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency from Gov. Newsom.” Mark Geragos, one of the brothers’ attorneys, said he wants them home for Thanksgiving and would also pursue clemency from Newsom, who acknowledged on a podcast last weekend that he was reviewing the matter and mentioned the Netflix docudrama “Monsters: …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Will the Menendez brothers be set free? How the parole board, the governor and a new D.A. could change things

LA Times

Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez leave courtroom in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 6, 1990, after a judge ruled that conversations between the two brothers and their psychologist after their parents were slain are not privileged and can be used as evidence in their murder case. George Gascón’s blockbuster announcement that he will seek to have Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

How L.A.’s progressive ‘godfather’ wound up struggling to keep his job as D.A.

LA Times

It’s a Saturday morning in late September, and Los Angeles County Dist. “This is why you have my support,” one commenter wrote when the video was later posted to Instagram with Gascón gesturing wildly at overlain text highlighting some of his campaign’s priorities. His positions largely boil down to reversals of Gascón’s edicts and a promise to operate in “the …

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2 months ago

Police cash flows to Hochman in D.A. race while support for Gascón dries up

LA Times

When George Gascón ousted Jackie Lacey from office in 2020, it marked the end of the most expensive district attorney’s race in Los Angeles County history. “They’re looking at all this information and saying this is a lost cause.” Of Gascón’s 10 largest 2020 outside donors, only four have given money to committees in support of his reelection campaign this …

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They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free

Once strongly liberal, Pico-Robertson surged for Trump in 2024. Why?

Menendez brothers’ aunts beg for their release as judge delays resentencing hearing

Lyle Menendez's age gap romance with young British student in turmoil amid claims he is a 'prison wife' to muscle-bound convict

Menendez brothers should be freed, two of their murdered parents’ sisters tell court

Marriage, service, TikTok fame: How the Menendez brothers spent 34 years in prison

Inside Menendez Brothers' California prison Thanksgiving

Menendez brother's prison romance with 35-years-younger blonde British student

California governor will not make clemency decision for Menendez brothers until new DA reviews case

Newsom delays Menendez brothers clemency decision until after LA's new DA Hochman reviews the case

Letters to the Editor: I voted for George Gascón in 2020. I’m glad to see him defeated in 2024.

The Mountain fire is scorching Ventura County. Here’s what we know

California voters turn away from progressive criminal justice policies

The Menendez brothers' freedom bid could be thwarted after voters fired LA DA George Gascon

Tide shifts against criminal justice reform among California voters

Trump wins. Control of the House could come down to California. And other results we know so far

New Los Angeles DA vows to reverse predecessor’s ‘social experiments’

Election day has arrived. Here are a few key races to follow

Nathan Hochman wins race for Los Angeles County D.A., beating George Gascón

L.A. D.A. Gascón made strides in prosecuting police. Would a Hochman win change that?

D.A. supports Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency after nearly 35 years behind bars

Will the Menendez brothers be set free? How the parole board, the governor and a new D.A. could change things

How L.A.’s progressive ‘godfather’ wound up struggling to keep his job as D.A.

Police cash flows to Hochman in D.A. race while support for Gascón dries up