What to Know
- Parole hearings are scheduled for Thursday and Friday in the decades-old case of the Menendez brothers.
- Erik Menendez’s parole hearing is scheduled for Thursday with Lyle Menendez’s proceeding set for Friday.
- If granted, parole could mean freedom for the brothers after more than 30 years in prison for the shotgun murders of their parents in 1989 at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion.
- Sometime after the hearings, the parole hearing panel will announce a written decision, but that decision is not final.
- A grant of parole is subject to reviews from the California Board of Parole chief counsel and Gov. Gavin Newsom as part of a process that could take months.
- The path to the parole hearings was cleared when the brothers, serving life prison sentences without possibility of parole, were resentenced to 50 years to life.
- The brothers will appear for the hearings on a video feed from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
The Menendez brothers will appear for a parole hearing that could result in freedom after more than 30 years in prison. Follow below for live updates.