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Erik Menendez Denied Parole as Lyle Faces Panel Today

Commissioners cited prison misconduct as the key reason for finding him unsuitable.

Erik Menendez appears virtually for his parole board hearing from the RJ Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
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Lyle Menendez, left, and his brother, Erik, sit in Beverly Hills Municipal Court in Beverly Hills, California, on March 12, 1990.
FILE - Lyle, left, and Erik Menendez leave a courtroom in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 6, 1990, after a judge ruled that conversations between the brothers and their psychologist after their parents were slain were not privileged and could be used as evidence. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

Overview

  • A California parole panel issued a three-year denial at Erik Menendez’s initial suitability hearing after an all-day session.
  • Commissioner Robert Barton said the ruling turned on decades of rule violations, including contraband cellphones, drugs, fights and involvement in a prison gang-related tax scheme.
  • Lyle Menendez is set for a separate video hearing Friday before a different panel, and his case will be decided independently.
  • The brothers became eligible for parole after a May resentencing reduced their terms to 50 years to life under California’s youthful-offender law.
  • Any parole grant would face months of board legal review followed by a 30-day window for Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision, so no immediate release is possible.