Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Monday he would not support Erik and Lyle Menendez’s efforts to be released from prison because he believes they have maintained a decades-long lie that the 1989 murders of their parents were committed in self-defense.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who took office in December, said last month that he opposed a new trial for the Menendez brothers. The siblings were convicted in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The Los Angeles District Attorney has announced he will oppose the notorious Menendez brothers from being resentenced, something that could have led to their freedom. Newly elected Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman's announcement goes against the position of his predecessor,