What to Know
- Lyle Menendez goes before a California parole board panel to learn whether he will remain in prison for the 1989 shotgun murders of his parents.
- The elder Menendez brother’s parole hearing comes 36 years and two days after the murders at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion.
- Younger brother Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after a 10-hour hearing where he faced tough questions about his criminal past and time in prison.
- If approved for parole, the Lyle Menendez case goes to a review by parole board counsel before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk in a process that can take months.
- If parole is denied, there are still two paths to freedom: clemency granted by the governor and a court petition that cites new evidence in the decades-old case.
- 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.
Lyle Menendez will be considered for parole Friday a day after parole was denied for Erik Menendez. Follow live updates below.