addressed<\/a> Menendez’s possession of a cellphone inside the prison when he opposed their resentencing, other violations were discussed during Thursday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n\u201cContrary to your supporters\u2019 beliefs, you have not been a model prisoner, and frankly we find that a little disturbing,\u201d Parole Commissioner Robert Barton said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were at least three fights or altercations Erik Menendez was involved with as revealed during the hearing.<\/p>\n
After getting into a fight with \u201cMr. Brown\u201d in November 1997, Menendez had a physical altercation with \u201cMr. Farmer\u201d after he was moved to Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was guilty of mutual combat. I fought back,\u201d Menendez said, claiming that he had to fight in self defense.<\/p>\n
When questioned about the tax fraud Menendez committed in 2013, he explained that he had to commit the tax scheme as he was threatened by a prison gang.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was in tremendous fear,\u201d Menendez said, claiming one of his prison friends had been stabbed and raped by the gang. \u201cThis was a great opportunity to align myself with them and to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n
In February 2018, Erik Menendez was also found to have invited someone into his cell to smoke Marijuana, with the inmate responding that he had received the drug from the same prison gang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Erik Menendez\u2019s attorneys and supporters highlighting his college degree and volunteer programs in their bid to get…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,46872],"class_list":{"0":"post-165644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-menendez-brothers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115070693498072513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}