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.