L.A. County D.A.’s Office Apologizes For Not Giving Menendez Family Crime Scene Photos Warning

The Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Office is apologizing to the Menendez household for not giving superior warning that crime scene photographs can be proven at a latest listening to … however, they add the selection was made to indicate the complete fact.

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 photographs they confirmed — including it wasn’t the workplace’s intention to upset the family members.

Nevertheless, we’re advised these hearings are “supposed to be a spot the place the reality, irrespective of how painful, is dropped at gentle” … so, the photographs wanted to be proven as a way to depict the brutality of the crime.

The D.A.’s workplace places a part of the blame on Erik and Lyle‘s request for clemency … explaining that the movement was at all times sure to “set off feelings for all these involved in a case that had lied dormant legally for over 18 years.”

The workplace notes that motions filed by prosecutors have typically described the killings of Jose and Kitty Menendez … together with how the 2 brothers killed their dad and mom with 13 photographs fired from a shotgun from shut vary and different grisly particulars.

Both manner, the L.A. County D.A’s workplace continues, “To the extent that the photographic depiction of this conduct upset any of the Menendez members of the family current in court docket, we apologize for not giving prior warning that the conduct can be described intimately not solely in phrases but additionally by a criminal offense scene photograph.”

The L.A. County D.A.’s Office additionally defends the conduct of District Lawyer Nathan Hochman … declaring he met with greater than two dozen members of the family of Erik and Lyle for greater than three hours — one thing they declare no prior D.A. has completed for the household in additional than three a long time.

The assertion ends with a blanket set off warning … telling people who find themselves coming to the listening to to “be ready for a number of the troublesome particulars and pictures surrounding these tragic circumstances.”

The assertion doesn’t embrace a response to the allegation that displaying the crime scene photographs throughout Friday’s resentencing listening to despatched Terry Baralt to the hospital.

As we advised you … the 85-year-old aunt of Erik and Lyle was discovered unresponsive in her lodge room this weekend — and, the household says she’s in vital situation due to the stress round this trial, notably concerning the gruseome photographs.

Bryan Freedman — the lawyer representing the household — slammed prosecutors for displaying these pictures … calling the transfer a “despicable motion [that] was a transparent violation of Marsy’s regulation which requires absolute empathy towards victims.”

Mark Geragos — Erik and Lyle’s lawyer who cohosts our “2 Offended Males” podcast — made related statements throughout a information convention Friday after a decide granted Erik and Lyle a resentencing listening to subsequent week.