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.

The brothers are currently incarcerated at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. “We are prepared to go forward. However, we are asking the court to withdraw the previous district attorney’s motion for resentencing because we believe there are legitimate reasons and the interests of justice justifies that withdrawal,