Lyle and Erik Menendez will appear before a California parole board this week, with Erik scheduled Thursday and Lyle Friday. Attorney Mark Geragos said board members are expected to ask direct questions, likely about rehabilitative projects, and will retire and make decisions each day. The brothers were convicted in 1996 for killing their parents in 1989 and were sentenced to life without parole after admitting the killings while claiming self-defense and sexual abuse by their father. New evidence in 2023 bolstered their abuse claims, a 2024 Netflix production renewed interest, and then-L.A. District Attorney George Gascon recommended resentencing, after which a judge reduced their terms to 50 years to life. Both are now in their 50s and eligible for parole under California's youthful offender law.
It's a very interactive experience, it's very robust and something people don't realize: The parole board members that day will retire, deliberate and make a decision each day,
I would expect a decision on both of them separately, sequentially, and hopefully it'll be a decision that gives them their freedom after almost 36 years.
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