Despite their efforts, the brothers will remain in the competent Committee on Suspensions, which rejected Eric and Laya Menendez’s request, which have been convicted of their parents’ murder in Beverly Hills in 1989, will be released on Friday.
The committee’s decision
The California prison and reintegration service, as he did with Eric on Thursday. Menendez brothers will be able to re -apply in three years.
In 1996 they were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of their parents, Jose and Kiti Menendez, with a carbine at their luxurious villa in Beverly Hills in 1989. In May judge reduced their sentence by paving the way for their release to seek out their release by They committed the crime.
Their trial was one of the first to be broadcast directly on television, and their story was released again thanks to a television series and a documentary released last year.
The allegations of the Menendez brothers
The Menendez brothers insist that they have acted on self -defense, having suffered for years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by their parents.
Following the appearance of the #MeToo movement, the charges of sexual abuse they had made to their father were encountered in a different light. More than 35 years after the crime began via the internet a movement in favor of their liberation, supported by the Menendez brothers’ family and well -known personalities, such as Kim Kardashian.
However, the Committee responsible for providing suspensions estimated that 54 -year -old Eric and 57 -year -old Layle are still a risk to society.
“Unlike what your supporters believe, you have not been a prisoner model and we sincerely find it a little worrying,” Robert Burton commented on Thursday, one of the members of the committee addressing 54 -year -old Eric.
The Commission met almost 10 hours before it reached the decision. “We spent four times more time more than we usually need,” Burton said. “It’s a tragic affair. I agree that two people were not lost by the family, but four. “
Next steps and new revelations
According to him, Eric Menendez used drugs and alcohol in prison, participated in illegal drug trafficking, used irregular cell phones, had inappropriate behavior against his visitors and participated in violent incidents in 1997 and 2011.
For corresponding reasons, the Commission also rejected Laye’s request.
On Thursday night, Los Angeles Prosecutor Nathan Hokman expressed his satisfaction with the committee’s decision to remain in prison Eric, estimating that he “justifies Jose and Kiti Menendez”.
“For more than three decades, Eric and Layle Menendez have falsely claiming to be in self -defense,” Hokman said, welcoming the committee “who did not get in the pressure or participated in the public spectacle”, despite the fact that the case was in the spotlight.
The positive decision of the Commission was considered, but their hopes have not disappeared, as California Governor Gavin Newsom can reduce their sentence.
At the same time, their lawyers are pushing for a new trial, citing new elements in recent years: an old letter sent by Eric to a cousin before the murders referring to the sexual abuse that he existed by his father and his father and the testimony of a former singer.
