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Erik Menendez denied the release by Parole Board, decades after killing parents
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Erik Menendez denied the release by Parole Board, decades after killing parents

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Key Points
  • Erik Menendez and his brother Lyle killed their parents in 1989.
  • They were eligible for conditional release after a judge reduced their sentence to 50 years to life earlier this year.
  • Lyle is also confronted this week with a conditional hearing.
Erik Menendez was denied for the conditional release after decades in prison for killing his parents with his older brother in 1989.
A panel of Californian commissioners on Friday denied him three years of conditional release, after which he is eligible again, in a case that continues to fascinate the public.
A conditional hearing for his brother Lyle, who is being held in the same prison in San Diego, is scheduled for later this week.
The two supervisory directors have established that Erik should not be released after a hearing of the whole day in which they asked him why he committed the crime and violated the prison rules.
The brothers was eligible for conditional release After a judge has reduced their penalties in May of life without conditional release of up to 50 years. The conditional hearings were closest to winning freedom of prison since their convictions almost 30 years ago to kill their parents.

They were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for the fatal shooting of their father, Jose Mendez and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills Mansion in 1989.

The brothers were eligible for conditional release after a judge had reduced their penalties in May of life without a conditional release of up to 50 years. Source: MONKEY / Nick Ut/AP

While the defense lawyers argued that after years of sexual abuse by their father, the brothers acted out of self -defense, public prosecutors said that the brothers were looking for a legacy of millions of dollars.

A judge reduced his penalties in May and they were immediately eligible for conditional release.
Erik made his case to two conditional commissioners and offered his most detailed report in years of how he was raised, why he made the choices he made and how he turned into prison.
He noted that the hearing fell almost exactly 36 years after he had killed his parents – on August 20, 1989.
“Today is August 21. Today the day that all my victims have learned that my parents were dead. So today is the birthday of their trauma trip,” he said, referring to his family members.
The Department has corrections has chosen a single reporter to view the video conference and share details with the rest of the press.

Erik, gray-haired and glasses, sat in front of a computer screen with a blue T-shirt over a white shirt with long sleeves in a photo shared by officials.

A man with short gray hair and glasses and a blue lime with short sleeves over a white t-shirt with long sleeves. He sits on a chair on a desk and looks at a gray monitor.

Erik Menendez appeared for the conditional board via video. Source: MONKEY / AP

The panel of supervisory directors investigated every violation of the rules and fights for his long -term prison record, including accusations that he worked with a prison gang, bought drugs, used mobile phones and helped with a tax swimper.

He said commissioners that, because he did not hope to come out ever, he gave priority to protecting himself above following the rules.
Subsequently, La -Officers of Justice asked a judge last fall to generate him and his brother – open the door for conditional release.
“In November 2024, the consequences now mattered,” he said. “Now the consequences meant that I destroyed my life.”
Erik’s conditional lawyer, Heidi Rummel, emphasized 2013 as the turning point for her client.
“He found his faith. He became responsible for his higher power. He found soberness and promised his mother on her birthday,” said Rummel.
“Has he been perfect since 2013? No. But he has been remarkable.”
More than a dozen of their family members, who have argued for the brothers for months, have made emotional explanations during Thursday’s hearing via video conference.

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