Can the Menendez brothers be released from prison after the monster?
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The parents of the Menéndez brothers, Jose and kittenwas found dead at his home in Beverly Hills in 1989. Lyle and Erik were not interested in the first place, but a year later their therapist recorded the meeting, and they admitted to the murder.
During their high-profile trial, the brothers charged their parents, Jose and Katie, with alleged physical, emotional and sexual abuse of Eric and Lyle, with no parole in 1996.
plot Law and Order, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and soprano Referring to the situation in the 1990s. The Menéndez brothers have also mentioned it many times in the FX drama People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story In 2016, Murphy Executive produced it. (also monsterMurphy also participated in the American Story franchise. )
On the 35th anniversary of the deaths of José and Kitty, NBC released an eight-episode special in 2017 titled Law and Order: The Real Crime – The Murder of Menides. Murphy accepts season 2 of the case monsterstarring Nicholas Chavez and Cooper Koch Lyle and Erik respectively. After the limited series made headlines, support for the Menéndez brothers resurfaced in their attempts to file a verdict.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office recommended in October 2024 that Erik and Lyle’s sentences have decreased due to new evidence that their father allegedly harassed them. once Nathan Hochman However, after more than a month, the recommendations were listed. The judge formally resented them between May and 50 years 2025, which qualifies them for parole.
Over the years, continued to roll to break down their appeal efforts:
What are the original sentences for Erik and Lyle?
Lyle and Erik were arrested in 1990 on two counts of first-degree murder. Three years later, the brothers were tried separately after years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse caused them to shoot their parents.
The case ended in a misjudgment after the jury was unable to make a unanimous decision. The retrial began in 1995, but most of the evidence surrounding the abuse cannot be used as a defense. Erik and Lyle (now on trial together) were eventually convicted of first-degree murder. Prior to the choice of the former in 1996, jurors considered between life or death sentences without parole.
After initially staying in the same prison, Erik and Lyle were transferred after sentencing. When Erik moved from Folsom State Prison to Pleasant Valley State Prison, Lyle was taken to Mule Creek State Prison.
They were reunited in 2018 when they were moved into the same housing unit at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Institution. It was their first party since they began serving their sentences for nearly two decades.
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How many attempts to appeal occurred?
The California Court of Appeal upheld the murders of Lyle and Eric in 1998, and the California Supreme Court refused to review them later that year. The Menendez Brothers filed a habeas petition to the California Supreme Court in 1999 and was denied. They filed the same petition in the U.S. District Court and were denied in 2003.
Erik and Lyle’s defense team decided to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which led to another denial in 2005.
What inspired the latest retrial requirement?
In 2023, Peacock released a documentary called Menéndez + Menudo: The boy betrayedwhere is the singer Roy Rosselló He was allegedly drugged and raped when he was a teenager of Erik and Lyle’s father, José. The charges of former Menudo band members were included in a petition filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Court documents require retrial when new evidence is cited in a case Andy Cano The father described his alleged sexual abuse a few months before the murder.
“No one has seen it [the cousin’s personal] Effects were until 2015, which was discovered ten years after our last appeal,” Eric and Lyle convicted attorneys Mark Geragos In a statement said people In September 2024. “We say the reason for the second trial is not comparable to constitutional protection, which is for a variety of reasons. [Corpus petition] There is new evidence. It needs new evidence, as the case has been around for almost 17 years. ”
Geragos breaks the request’s three potential results.
He continued: “The judge can deny it, the judge can order the DA to respond, or the judge can do what he does, and it is the order that the DA has sent an informal response, and over the past 15 months they have responded very seriously because we have provided them with evidence.”[We provided statements from 24 family members who] All demanded that they were indignant, providing a lot of other documents and evidence for them to examine and consider when making a decision. ”
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What is the current update for the re-recording request?
Erik (L) and Lyle (R) Menendez
Kim Kulish/AFP via Getty ImagesA spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office issued a statement “how to investigate claims filed in the petition.”
The District Attorney’s Office told people.
In the same month, Netflix announced that Lyle and Erik were interviewed Brothers Menéndez Record. The special program is scheduled to be released in October 2024 and includes videos of conversations with jurors Betty OldfieldKatie’s sister Joan Vander Molen and prosecutors Pamela Bozanich.
“Everyone asked why we killed our parents,” Lyle said in the trailer using the jail audio interview. “Perhaps people can understand the truth now.”
Erik added: “What happened that night was very well known, but was not told. … So we are not those who tell the story of our lives. Two children do not commit crimes on money.”
A month later, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office cited new evidence that their father was suspected of harassing them, Erik and Lyle were awarded a new hearing in the case. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office recommended Erik and Lyle’s sentences in October 2024 to reduce.
When Hochman became the next district attorney, he walked back. In March 2025, Hodgman’s office withdrew its demands on crimes based on the brothers’ crimes to reduce sentences. Erik and Erik and Lyle remain resentful two months later to 50 years later, which may make them eligible for parole after going through the process.
