Menendez Household Drags D.A.’s Workplace to Courtroom for Displaying Crime Scene Pics

The Menendez Brothers‘ kinfolk are ripping L.A. County D.A. Nathan Hochman … blasting his use of crime scene images in a latest court docket listening to as a “grotesque spectacle” with dire penalties.

Bryan Freedman — the legal professional representing the household — rips Hochman in a brand new court docket submitting … saying the county’s prime prosecutor is making a mockery of Marsy’s Legislation, which protects the rights of crime victims.

Within the docs, obtained by TMZ, Freedman says Hochman gratuitously and needlessly displayed crime scene images at Friday’s court docket listening to, which was attended by a bunch of Erik‘s and Lyle‘s kinfolk — and he claims the images brought on the brothers’ 85-year-old aunt, Terry Baralt, such extreme emotional misery she ended up in a hospital mattress.

Freedman says the D.A.’s Workplace victimized the Menendez members of the family a second time with their “scandalous conduct,” and he says they’re treating the Menendez clan as “second-class victims because of a coverage disagreement” between Hochman and the household.

Freedman says Hochman’s actions had been “gratuitous and needlessly displayed” and served no legit objective apart from to “inflame feelings to realize most ‘shock’ worth.”

The household is asking the court docket to admonish the D.A.’s Workplace and organize them to offer the household advance discover of any future plans to indicate crime scene images within the Menendez case.

Freedman says Hochman will not be treating the household with equity and respect and he claims Hochman is making a mockery of a regulation supposed to make sure victims are free from intimidation, harassment, and abuse.

For his half, Hochman has since apologized for not giving advance warning to the household … although he says the images wanted to be proven with a purpose to depict the brutality of the crime.

There are extra Menendez hearings within the close to future … and it will likely be fascinating to see how this all performs out.