Have to know
-
Sources near the Menendez family tell people: “They prepare that neither is released” on a day after Erik's conditional release was refused
-
Lyle is for the first time on Friday, August 22, more than three decades after he and his brother shot their parents in their Beverly Hills house in 1989, more than three decades after he and his brother deadly shot down
-
A conditional commissioner called Erik's violations behind bars as part of his denial
After a conditional Council of California had concluded that Erik Menendez will stay behind bars for at least three years, the Menendez family fears another painful setback, because Lyle is also opposed to the parole board.
“Now they prepare that none of them are released,” sources say close to the people family. “They are disappointed for Erik about the outcome, but believe it was a victory, because he can be a conditional release again in three years.”
Erik was denied conditional release on Thursday 21 August, more than three decades after he and his brother, Lyle, were convicted of killing their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in 1989 in their Beverly Hills, California, at home.
His denial was mainly attributed to his violations behind bars, of which Commissioner Robert Barton said that drugs, a mobile phone and a tax fraud schedule, the The New York Times reported.
“In contrast to the beliefs of your supporters, you have not been a model prisoner, and to be honest, we find that a bit disturbing,” said Barton, according to the outlet.
The sources tell people that the family believes that the decision “comes from [Erik’s] New risk assessment associated with the violation of the mobile phone. “
Now Lyle is waiting for a decision because he is facing the Parole Board on Friday, August 22. A legal expert recently told people that he can get a similar result, unless “his conditional commissioners are different” and if his behavior behind bars is different from Erik's.
CDCR/MEGA
Lyle Mendez; Erik Menendez
“It would be real, a judicial miscarriage if one brother became conditional and the other was not, because they were in the same way,” said former Federal Public Prosecutor Neaman Rahmani.
Do you want to keep the last coverage of crime? Sign up for the free True Crime newsletter from people for breaking crime news, continuous coverage of the test and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
In May, a judge ruled that Lyle and Erik would hate life in prison without a conditional release of up to 50 years in prison. The brothers, who were convicted in 1996 for murder in the first degree, immediately eligible for conditional release because they were under 26 at the time of the murders. Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18.
Lyle and Erik do not dispute that they killed their parents, but have long argued that they were sexually abused by their father, which Kitty reportedly was aware of, but did nothing to stop. They also claimed that Jose had threatened to kill them when they told someone about sexual abuse.
After the murders, prosecutors said that the motive of the two brothers was greed and cited their lush editions after the murders.
In a statement shared after Erik's hearing, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman praised the decision of the California Board of Parole hearing and said in a statement that it “does justice” for the victims.
Read the original article about people
