Overview

• Erik Menendez appears before a California parole panel Thursday with Lyle scheduled Friday, each joining by video from San Diego as commissioners weigh whether they pose an unreasonable risk to public safety.
• A Los Angeles judge in May reduced their sentences from life without parole to 50 years to life, making them immediately eligible under California’s youth-offender law.
• Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman opposes release, saying the brothers lack full insight into their crimes and pointing to recent cellphone rule violations cited in a risk report.
• Relatives supporting parole are offering statements at the closed hearings and highlight decades of rehabilitative work, educational achievements and remorse expressed during resentencing.
• If the board grants parole, the chief legal counsel has up to 120 days to review before the case goes to Newsom, who then has 30 days to affirm, reverse, modify or refer the decision.