Menendez brothers face parole hearings as they seek release after three decades | Los Angeles
Menendez brothers He is planned to encounter separate conditional evacuation hearings that started on Thursday, and he points out that he gained freedom after he was sentenced to about 30 years of imprisonment in the massacre of his parents in Los Angeles homes.
Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to jail in 1996 for killing their father Jose Menendez and his mother Kitty Menend in 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 consisting of two or three conditional evacuation hearing officers from a Commissioner Board will evaluate each of the brothers through a video conference. Erik Menendez will take the hearing on Thursday morning and then Lyle Menendez from the prison in San Diego on Friday.
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.
According to the California Correction and Rehabilitation Department, the Board will consider whether the brothers constitute a öygulan unreasonable risk of danger for society ”, given the factors such as guilty history, signs of motivation and regret for crime, behavior in prison and future plans.
Even if the Board releases conditional evacuation, it may still be months for the brothers to walk free. If the Board gives the conditional release of each brother, the Chief Legal Counsel has 120 days to review the case. Later, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has 30 days to approve or reject the conditional evacuation. Only then, if Newsom confirmed the conditional release, the Menendez brothers would be able to leave the prison.
Newsom had previously ordered the state conditional evacuation committee to make a risk assessment of the brothers in response to an architectural demand. At that time, the key problem stressed whether the brothers were “unreasonable risk for public security”.
At a news conference in May, the Conditional Evacuation Board had previously approved and rejected the decisions and that it was the “final referee”.
Brotherhood lawyer Mark Geragos was released for Erik Menendez last month after being hospitalized due to a “serious medical situation”. He’s been in prison since then.
For decades, the case has attracted the attention of real crime enthusiasts for decades and revealed documentaries, television specialties and dramatizations. Netflix Drama Monsters: The story of Lyle and Eriy Menendez and both of which were broadcasted in 2024, the documentary of Menendez Brothers, was credited to the brothers because they attracted new attention.
Last year, he helped to combine the legion of a supporter who wanted to be released and released more of the brothers as the support of celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and a victim of sexual abuse. Some of them flew to Los Angeles in the last few months, held rally and attended the court hearings while the brothers’ lawyers forced their anger.
Previous La County Regional Lawyer George Gascón first opened the door of possible freedom for the brothers, asking a judge to reduce his sentences. Since their conviction, the brothers received a training, attended their own aid classes, and established various support groups for other people in prison.
The decision of the judge to resist the brothers ultimately watched a return from the existing prosecutors who argued that they did not take enough responsibility for the crimes of the brothers for months.
The Menendez brothers have a petition that was waiting for a waiting for their convictions based on new evidence supporting sexual abuse by their fathers in May 2023. Last month, a different judge ordered Los Angeles prosecutors to explain why their case should not be re -examined.
The State Correction Department chose a media representative to almost view the proceedings and share the notes with the rest of the press at certain intervals.
