Menendez Brothers' Family Lawyer Bryan Freedman Rips New D.A. Nathan Hochman

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The lawyer representing Erik and Lyle Menendez's victims, who are also family members, is ripping the new District Attorney handling their case ... and calling the prosecutor a liar.

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00:00The new DA was on television today saying yeah I'm more than willing if

00:09the family members want to meet with me. I found that a little different than

00:15saying I'm going to call back and ask to talk to them. It was like yeah if they

00:20want to meet with me I will. And you know when you kind of listen to that does it

00:26not feel like maybe the die is cast here? I mean there are signs. Harvey I think

00:32what's most troubling is that you know these are family members most of which

00:39who have traveled you know some great distances to meet with the the DA's

00:46office on multiple occasions already. On CNN today he actually made the

00:51representation that he had invited the family members all of the family members

00:57to speak with him or meet with him and that's just simply not true. It was the

01:02purpose of my letter and my email on Saturday night. It's the purpose of doing

01:07this. He has not reached out and that is concerning. There's other troubling

01:11things you know also you know in the interview with Deadline DA Hockman said

01:17you know that you know that it was simply untrue that that frankly that

01:23that boys and girls and men and women and sexual abuse was you know it was

01:28treated differently in the 90s. That's completely untrue. There in 1991 the

01:33legislature had 11 and incorporated and created evidence code section of 1107

01:40and what that was is that was called battered women's syndrome. It wasn't

01:45until 2004 long after both these trials that the legislator changed the law to

01:51battered persons syndrome. So society you know obviously treated you know male

01:57sexual abuse very different than sexual abuse of women and and and girls and

02:05and that's just you know a black and white statement. So for DA Hockman to

02:11come out and say what are you talking about we prosecuted a number of cases

02:16involving boys. That just that misstates what the issue is. The real issue is did

02:22society treat it differently? Was the evidence let in? And it wasn't let in.

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