Erik and Lyle Menendez have lost their bid for a new trial. A month after the brothers were denied parole at back-to-back suitability hearings where they recounted their 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled they do not qualify for a new …
Read More »
A day after his younger brother Erik was denied release on parole, Lyle Menendez was handed the same fate Friday evening, with California prison officials ruling he remains a risk to public safety. It was a minimal denial of three years. “We find your remorse is genuine. In many ways, …
Read More »
Erik Menendez, the younger of the two Beverly Hills brothers who infamously gunned down their parents in 1989 after years of alleged sexual abuse, was denied parole at a highly anticipated hearing Thursday. The three-year denial, while minimal, dashed many supporters’ hopes that Erik, 54, might be home with his …
Read More »
Erik and Lyle Menendez are now a huge step closer to possibly going home. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic recalled the brothers’ sentences of life without parole in a dramatic reversal of fortune at a court hearing Tuesday. He then resentenced the brothers to 50 years to life, …
Read More »
After months of delays and near-derailment, Erik and Lyle Menendez will get their first major shot at freedom at a resentencing hearing next week. A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that the brothers’ previously paused two-day hearing will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday. Relatives and experts — and possibly …
Read More »
The resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez was delayed again Thursday as defense and prosecution lawyers clashed in court, and the brothers’ lead attorney Mark Geragos said the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office should be “thrown off the case.” At the hearing in Van Nuys, California, which the …
Read More »
Erik and Lyle Menendez appeared by video in a California courtroom Friday and scored a legal victory when a judge said their resentencing hearing will move forward as planned next week, despite fierce opposition from Los Angeles County’s recently elected district attorney, Nathan Hochman. At a lengthy court hearing in …
Read More »
Lyle and Erik Menendez appeared via audio at a court hearing Monday as their two elderly aunts asked a judge to resentence the brothers for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez. Los Angeles County Judge Michael Jesic heard the testimony but said it was too …
Read More »
It’s only been two weeks since an announcement from the Los Angeles Country District Attorney gave supporters of Lyle and Erik Menendez fresh hope that the two, serving life sentences in prison, might finally be released. But the results of the recent election have cast a shadow on that future …
Read More »
Ari Graynor has tears in her eyes. We had been scheduled to speak this afternoon, Oct. 24, about her role in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the Netflix miniseries that has helped reignite public fascination with the 1989 murder case in which the two brothers, 18 and 21 …
Read More »