Almost 36 years for the day after Lyle and Erik Menendez murdered their parents, a California parole committee rejected Erik Menendez’s parole.
The decision, which fell early Thursday evening, is probably a sign that Lyle Menendez will receive the same result during her separate hearing, scheduled for Friday.
The refusal will become official before the CPB examination process was finalized and sent to Governor Gavin Newsom for approval. This includes a separate audience where the panel will explain its reasoning to refuse parole. Newsom will have the last word to the case, but he previously indicated that he would follow the recommendations of the commission of parole.
Thursday’s hearing took place practically the correctional installation of Richard J. Donovan de San Diego, just like Friday.
The Menendez brothers have been imprisoned since 1990, when they were arrested for the murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, which took place on August 20, 1089 when Erik was 21 years old and Lyle was 18 years old.
After a long legal battle which saw their first judicial case ended with a trial, the brothers were sentenced and sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole in 1996. But they became eligible for parole in May 2025, after a judge of Los Angeles reduced their sorrows to 50 years for life; The distinction of eligibility being that they were under 26 years of age when crimes occurred, according to local law.
Erik and Lyle Menendez, now 57 and 54 respectively, have become major figures in pop culture due to the tabloid coverage of their criminal trials from the 1990s, as well as calls more recently for their release. Their story was recently represented in the Netflix series by Ryan Murphy “Monsters”.
