California parole board denies release of Erik Menendez | California
The California Parole Hearing Board rejected the release of Erik Menendez on Thursday and served for about 30 years in prison since he was sentenced to the deaths of his brother’s parents.
Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to jail in 1996 that their father Jose Menendez and his mother Kitty Menendez hit the Beverly Hills mansions in 1989. He was 18 and 21 at the time. Defense lawyers, brothers’ fathers after years of sexual abuse of self -defense, while arguing that the prosecutors killed their parents for a multimillion -dollar heritage, the prosecutors said.
A panel of the California commissioners rejected the conditional evacuation of the plum menendez for three years, after which it will be appropriate again in a situation that continues to fascinate the people. A conditional release hearing for his brother Liele Menendez, who was held in the same prison in San Diego, is planned on Friday morning.
The two commission members determined that Erik Menendez should not be released after the hearing all day and questioned why he committed the crime and violated the rules of prison.
“Two things can be right. They can love and forgive you, and still be found inappropriate for conditional evacuation, Barton said the commissioner Robert Barton.
Barton said the main reason for the decision is not the seriousness of the crime, but Menendez’s behavior in prison.
Parole hearing hesitates, almost 30 years ago, pointed out the closest to gaining freedom since their conviction to kill their parents.
The State Correction Department chose a single reporter to watch the video conference and to share the details with the rest of the press.
In May, a Los Angeles judge in May, without the possibility of a conditional evacuation of prison for life for life for life for life for life after the prison for a lifetime of prison became suitable for conditional evacuation and when they committed their crimes under the age of 26, the California law immediately made it suitable for conditional evacuation.
During the hearing, Erik Menendez presented his most detailed account over the years and why he made his elections – both during the murders of his parents and in prison for decades.
“I didn’t grow up with a moral foundation,” he said. “A abstract way to lie, deceive, play in sense.”
The panel asked the details of why he and Lyle Menendez use a false identity to buy the weapons they used to kill their parents; Who acted first; And if their father were the main abuse, why would they kill their mothers.
Barton asked: “Do you see that there are other options at that point?”
“When I looked at the person I was at that time and the person I believed in the world and my family, the leakage was inevitable, Men said Menez said. “Escape meant death.” Menendez, gray hair and glasses, shared by the authorities in a photo of a white -long shirt on a blue t -shirt on a computer screen sat in front of a computer screen.
The Panel of the Commissioners examined every violation of every rule, including allegations that he worked with a prison gang, bought drugs, used mobile phones and helped tax fraud, and fought with a long prison record.
He told the commission members that he gave priority to protecting himself in obeying the rules, as he did not hope to go out at that time. Then in the fall last autumn, La prosecutors asked him and his brother to anger – they opened the door of the conditional evacuation.
“In November 2024, the results are important,” Menendez said. “Now the results mean that I have destroyed my life.”
A special adhesion point for commissioners was to use mobile phones.
Menendez, “I received from the phone and my connection with the outside world was much larger than the consequences of caught by phone,” he said.
Erik Menendez’s conditional evacuation lawyer Heidi Rummel emphasized 2013 as the turning point of his client.
Rummel, “found his faith. He was responsible for his high power. Sobriety found and gave a promise to his mother on his birthday,” he said. “Is it perfect since 2013? No. But remarkable.”
Commissioner Rachel Stern applauded him for starting a group to look at older and disabled prisoners.
More than a dozen relative gave emotional expressions through a video conference at the hearing on Thursday.
“Today is August 21st. Today, the day all my victims have died. Today is the anniversary of the trauma journeys.”
Jose Menendez’s sister Teresita Menendez-Baraalt said that she completely forgiven her. Stage said he died of 4 cancer and wanted to invite him to his home.
“Plum carries itself with kindness, honesty and power from patience and grace,” he said.
A relative promised to the conditional evacuation committee in Colorado, where he could spend time with his family and enjoy nature.
La District Regional Prosecutor’s Office Nathan Hochman, before the conditional trials, because of the lack of insight against the brothers against the conditional evacuation, and in 1968 Los Angeles presidential candidate Robert f Kennedy’e compared with Sirhan Sirhan.
During the hearing, La prosecutor Habib Balian asked Menendez to attempts to ask him and his brothers to lie in court in his own name, and the brothers could not staged and staged the murder as a mafia shot. Members of the Commission greatly rejected the questions by saying that they had not tried the case again.
In the closing statements, Balian questioned that Menendez said that the commission members wanted to hear.
Balian said, “When a person continues to reduce his responsibility for a crime and continues to make the same false excuses they have made for more than 30 years, one is still the same dangerous person when his parents still make a hunting rifle,” he said.
Associated Press contributed to reporting
