Mark Geragos Rips L.A. D.A. Hochman Over Motion to Halt Menendez Resentencing Hearing

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Mark Geragos fired back at Nathan Hochman by calling his decision to move the resentencing appalling ... adding he's "abused the victims" both privately and publicly.

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00:00The D.A. did file a motion to continue. I don't expect that his honor is going to grant that

00:10motion to continue. I do, however, think that it's appalling, for lack of a better term,

00:17how the D.A. has treated this case. By the way, Marcy's law, which is a constitutional

00:25law in the state of California, requires certain things of prosecutors and duties for victims.

00:33I don't know why, in this case, this particular D.A., because it certainly was not the last D.A.,

00:40but this particular D.A. has decided that he's got some other interest to vindicate that has nothing

00:46to do with the victims. There are people in this courtroom or will be in this courtroom that have

00:51been following these proceedings that have lived this case for 35 years. They're the victims. They

00:57have the unique situation of both being victims in this case and relatives of the defendants.

01:05Because of that unique nature, apparently the D.A. has said he gets a constitutional hall pass from

01:12doing anything regarding those victims, supporting those victims, notifying those victims, or anything

01:18else. He has abused the victims privately. He has abused them publicly. Just this last Friday,

01:26you were all here when they flashed grisly crime scene photos on the screen. I had to. In fact,

01:33it took me a second because normally it would be the D.A. who would jump up and object to that. Instead,

01:40it fell upon the defense to jump up and object to that. The D.A., to his credit, apologized. And then,

01:48you know what he did? He went and he organized a protest against the resentencing on Sunday morning

01:54while Terry Barrault was lying in a hospital after being found unconscious that morning on Sunday.

02:01I would ask you to ask the D.A. why at the last minute he does a Hail Mary filing of a motion to

02:07continue and does not notify any of the victims or the victim's lawyer. Why? What is going on? Whose

02:13interest is he vindicating? Who has he been taken hostage? Ask him those questions. Ask him if he's

02:20vindicating victims' rights, the public's rights, or if he's just trying to placate some disgruntled D.A.s

02:27in his own office for political purposes.

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