Nathan Hochman, the incoming Los Angeles County district attorney, said this week that he will review his predecessor’s decision to recommend that the Menendez brothers be made eligible for parole.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted in 1996 for the double murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989 and were each sentenced to two consecutive terms of life without parole. Their case recently returned to the forefront of public consciousness thanks to a new documentary and a new dramatic series about the brothers, both released by Netflix.

Hochman, during an interview with ABC News released on Thursday, criticized outgoing District Attorney George Gascón over the “timing of his decision” to announce that his office would support resentencing the brothers and making them eligible for parole immediately.

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