The judge denied D.A. Nathan Hochman's motion to withdraw the petition for resentencing ... which the previous D.A. had requested. Bottom line is Erik and Lyle WILL get their day in court to seek a new sentence.
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00:00Today is a good day. Justice won over politics. It's been a long time coming for anybody who was in the courtroom. It was very difficult to sit and listen to what we witnessed and we were obviously very thankful to the judge and I couldn't be prouder of representing this
00:30family. They've waited a long time to get some justice and today was actually probably the biggest day since they've been in custody. I'm going to let them talk. I'm going to just say a couple of things.
00:49We heard and saw a lot of performative arts, performative theatrics from the DA's office. The fact remains, and by the way, he's here. I had him under subpoena.
01:05Brock Lunsford, who was hardly, if you knew Brock like I knew Brock, the idea that he's some kind of a toady is laughable and you should ask him some questions. I subpoenaed him here today, but I did not put him on the stand.
01:24He, I thought, did the right thing, the brave thing. I, in the courtroom, apologized to the family. I have seen something that I've never seen before where a DA's office who basically hired for a head of victim services, somebody who was absolutely at odds with everybody behind here,
01:52and then gave them no support whatsoever, and then traumatized them again by throwing what I only consider to be an abhorrent picture up on the screen without warning, by the way, that I would have been chastised for if I did it as a defense lawyer.
02:11I just think, all in all, it was an important day, a great day, and I'm thankful to everybody behind me for entrusting me.