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Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian criticised the former DA George Gascón, whose backing of the resentencing effort allowed it to move forward.

He said the decision by Gascón to announce his support for the brothers to be resentenced just before the November election, which Gascón lost to Hochman by a wide margin, was politically driven.

Alternatively, the court could side with former DA George Gascón's earlier recommendation and resentence the brothers to 50 years to life.

George Gascón sought to have the brothers resentenced to 50 years to life in prison — a move could have made them eligible for parole as youthful offenders because they carried out the killings when they were under the age of 26.

But after Hochman thrashed Gascón in the November election, he promised to revisit the Menendez case.