LOS ANGELES – A California judge rejected a request for a new trial against Erik and Lyle Menendez, another possible path to freedom for brothers who served in prison in 1989 when their parents killed their parents. Beverly Hills Mansion.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan denied a May 2023 petition requesting a review of their beliefs in support of new evidence of their father’s claims of sexual abuse.
The judge wrote that the new evidence that “slightly confirms” the allegations of sexual abuse of the brothers does not negate the fact that the couple acted “premeditated and deliberate” in the killing.
“The evidence for the allegations here is not so compelling that at least one juror or support for imperfect self-defense instructions creates reasonable doubt,” the judge wrote.
An email was sent to the brothers’ lawyer Mark Geragos, seeking comment on the judge’s ruling.
The two commissioners denied Lyle Menendez’s three-year parole after a full-day hearing. The commissioner noted that the elder brother still exhibited “anti-social personality traits such as deception, minimization and rule violations that lie below that frontal surface”.
Erik Menendez was held in the same prison in San Diego and was also released on parole a day ago after commissioners determined that his misconduct in the prison left him at risk of public safety.
The brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 for fatal shootings of father Jose Menendez and mother Kitty Menendez. Beverly Hills Mansion About 36 years ago, August 20, 1989. Defense attorneys believe the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers sought millions of dollars in inheritance.
The judges reduced their sentences in May and they immediately met for parole. The parole hearing marks the closest they have to win freedom since their conviction about 30 years ago.
