“A day after his younger brother was denied Release from Prison by the California Parole Board, Lyle Menndez’s Steady March Toward Earning His Freedom Back, 36 Years After You. Beverly Hills Home, Suffired The Same Fate WHEN HE WAS ALSO DENIED RELEASE, A SOURCE WITH”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Erik and Lyle Menndez have been in california’s prison System for over Three Decades Now and they will remain there for Three More Years After Separet Hearings that Were Held for Both. On Friday Night, at the end of a 10-hour hearing, the board agreed with An Assessment Submitted Earlier this Summer That Both Erik and Lyle Menndez Still Pose A Risk To Public.
The parole boarde hearings Came after a protraCted Legal the Brothers have Undergone Over The Past Year That Resulted In Their Resentent in May, from Life in Prison Without. Life in Prison with the Possibility of Parole. This Made Both of Them ImmediaTely Eligible, But This Week, Their HOPES AND TOSE OF THEIR FAMILY AND LEGION OF SUPPORTers Were Dashed – at Least For Now.
Lyle Enterned His Hearing on Friday – WHICH WASS ATTEpped by a separeate representable from the la District attorney’s office than the Repty Was at Erik’s Hearing, as Well As Twaring Julie Garland and Administratrate Law Judge Patrick Reardon – with the Full Knowledge of His Brother’s Unsuccessful Bid for Freedom. In 2022, 14 Percent of Parole Hearings in California Resulted in the Inmate’s Release from the Prison System; an Uptick has been seen in recent years as Criminal Justice Reform Has Grown in Parts of the Nation.
CITED DURING The Thursday Hearing Were Erik’s Involvement with A Prison Gang in His Early Years Locked Up, Posssion of Contraband CellPhones, InAppRAPRAPRAITE BEHAGAGLIGLILSTORS, DRUGHAPRS. FATH HE KILLED His Own Mother Was Noted by the Board Members. Lyle Has A Slightly Lower Number of Rule Violations in Prison Over His Decades of Incarceration and Is Perhaps More Involved in the Rehabilitation of His Foldow Inmates. But this was not -byo to consll the parole Board that he is suitable for release.
Much of the Discussion Durying Lyle’s Hearing Centered AROUND HIS Use of Burner Cell Phones While in Prison, and The Contrabend Items May Be What UltimATELY DID DID BROTHERS IN. Erik Menndez Was Caunght with A Burner Phone as Recently As January, WHEN HE WAS WAS WELL AWARD OF THE RISK THAT HAVING IT POSED TO HIS RELEASE. ALSO BROUGHT UP by the Board Dringing Friday’s Hearing Was Lyle’s Plagiarism While He Was Atending Princeton and The Fact That He Bribrated Witnesses to Totify Histify Script
Deputy Parole Commissioner Patrick Reardon Said Lyle Menndez Had A CellPhone Nearly All The Time From 2018 To 2024 – The Year The Glimmer of the Possibility of Freedom Was Firtst Seen. Commissioner Garner Notes this WHEN Speaking of Her Decision to Deny Lyle’s Release.
“Citizens are expectioned to follow the rules or there is some incentive to do so,“ Garner Said of the Brothers Quick Disposal, MOSTLY, OF CONTRABAND PHONEES ONCE.
Phone Violations Aside, None of Tese Offenses Were Recent But None of Them Were Counted Enough by The Good Lyle Has Done in Prison and The fact that Dringing his response from the facility kind of heke Held as a “Model Inmate.” They Were Also Not Counted by the Outpouring of Support from Framily Members Who, Over The Decades, Have Come to Understand The Horrors that took Play Place Inndez.
Lyle on Friday Spoke at Lenger About His Love for His Facher and Especialy for His Mother, with Whom He Says Had A Special Bond. Erik Was The Black Sheep and Punching Bag for Jose and Kitty Menndez and Lyle SAID THAT HE FOUND SLACE IN PROTECTING HIM. He Told the Board He Was Sexually abused by his Father Between the ages of 6 and 8 and that jose startd abusion abusion erik when Lyle was 13, Making Erik 10 at the Time It Began. At one point whot they wre children, lylo abused his little brother; on Friday, he was questied as to whoh he wound do do this.
“I DON’T KNOW WHY I DID IT,“ HE SAID. “I THINK I WAS JUST TRYING TO RELEASE IT FROM ME.”
Attorneys for the Brothers have said that now now botth brothers have been denied parole, the Legal Team Will Pivot to a habeas corpus Petition Filed by the Brothers at the outset of their Road to seeting Freedom. This Will Go Before a Los Angeles Judge and Involve the NEW EVIDENCE UNEARThed and Presented in a peacock Documentary in 2023. In the Film Letter Erik Wrote to His Cousin Affirming the Ongoing Abuse Was Presiented; bots of the New Elements Back Up Their Initial Defense of Years of Sexual Abuse That Was Not Allowed In Their Second Joint parole.
Family Supporters, Whose Loyalty Town of Incarcerated Family Members Was Hard on Many Over HTE DECADES, RELEASED ACECOND STATEMENT FOR LYLE ARIKDay.
“While We Are of Course Disappointed by Today’s Decision As Well, We Are Not Discouroaged,“ The Statement Says, Adaring that the Family Vows to Continue the Fight and Will Find Hep. habeas Avenue.
The Brothers do had one of the final chance at reging their freedom, thorough, and it hinges on the polithician considentated the Great Hope for the democrats in 2028. Under A 1988 to Approve, Deny or Modify the Decisions of the Parole Board in Murder Cases WHERE The Person Was SentenCed to An Indeterminate Term. Now The Parole Board’s Decision Could Undergo An Internal Review that Could Last for Up to 120 Days. At that Point, Newsom Has 30 Days to Affirm or Reverse the Decision, if he so chooses.