Say two prosecutors

Los Angeles – Two prosecutors from the Los Angeles district stated in new legal information that they were downgraded and confronted because they supported the sale of Erik and Lyle Menendez.

The public prosecutor’s office Nancy Theberge and Brock Lunsford submitted the government’s claims on Monday because it was due to its work, which supports the brothers’ resource signs, and because of their perceived political association with George Gascón, the former public prosecutor of Los Angeles, from the size department of District lawyers had been laid.

The registration of Theberge continued that it was suspended due to her age and gender of discriminatory treatment. Your registration said that office leaders treated her differently than younger, male colleagues, “undermined your authority and your professional reputation”.

Both Thebergge and Lunsford had supported the size of the size, and from October they took part in meetings for resentment.

The Menendez brothers were convicted of their parents’ murders in 1989 and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 without probation. They stay in a California prison.

The prosecutors wrote a memorandum on the legal and process -related basis for the sale of the brothers.

“The position of Theberge, which was based exclusively on its interpretation of the law, met with resistance to the new leadership within the public prosecutor,” says its submission.

Your registration claims after you wrote internal and external reports that there would be a violation of the law if it was opposition to the brothers’ departments, the public prosecutor transferred it from your position and transferred it to the alternative to re -assign public defenders. .

After Nathan Hochman was elected in November, Lunsford “was robbed by all supervisory duties,” says his submission. He was re -assigned on December 14th as a calendar lawyer in Department T of the Norwalk Courthouse: “A position that he held years earlier, without possibilities for promoting or further development,” says the submission.

Their submissions claimed that they confronted retaliation measures, partly due to Hochman’s belief that they supported his political opponent and predecessor Gascón. Both had openly supported Gascón as district prosecutor and his re -election.

The submissions are state claims that are predecessors for complaints. You are looking for economic damage of over $ 250,000 and non-economic damage over $ 5 million.

“Nancy and Brock are obliged public servants and experienced lawyers who pursued the law – the law they believed that they have to work for the sale of the Menendez brothers,” her lawyer Justin Shegerian told NBC Los Angeles.

The public prosecutor said that “there is no comments on this matter”.

The case of the Menendez brothers resumed the public last year with the publication of two Hollywood projects: the Netflix Crime series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and a Netflix documentary with the title “The Menendez Brothers” .

Hochman said last month that he did not decide whether the prison terms for the brothers should be reduced. He said he was still checking extensive court and prison documents.

The brothers’ lawyers tried to reduce their penalties to 50 years, a request that they immediately entitled to the probation that Gascón had approved.

A judge will ultimately determine whether his punishments should be reduced.