The California Parole Board decided not to release Erik Menendez, 54, younger brother of Lyle Menendez, 57, on Thursday after a review of their life imprisonment for murdering their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989.
As news agencies had reported, the two had received a chance at parole due to public interest in their case:
Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. While defense attorneys argued that the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the…
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