California Council on Conditional Liberation Rejected Conventionally, the free release for Eric Menendes, rejecting his first application for release almost 36 years after he and his brother Lyle shot his parents in their house in Beverly Hills.
After almost a 10-hour hearing on Thursday, the commissars came to the conclusion that, despite support from the family and lawyers, Eric remains unsuitable for liberation. He will not have the right to try again within three years, although he can petition an earlier hearing, according to report from Los Angeles Times.
“This is a tragic case,” said Robert Barton, commissar on conditionally relevant liberation. “I agree that not only two people were lost in this family.”
The case attracted the attention of the country in 1990sThe prosecutors said in court that the brothers executed their parents in order to inherit the condition of the family and lead a generous lifestyle. The Menendes brothers checked extravagantly during the time of the death of their parents and their arrest. The defense objected that the brothers have transferred the years of emotional and sexual violence by the father and were afraid for their future safety, according to Once report.
“Step by step, my mother showed that she united with my father,” Eric said this week at a hearing. “That night I saw them as one person. If she had not been in the room, perhaps it would be different. ”
The brothers were originally sentenced to a life conditional conditional discretion.
The younger brother of Menendes, who is now 54 years old, told the rule that he brings deep repentance and explained violations of past rules, including drug use and assistance to the gang during the prison, as the actions of someone, who lived in fear and with freedom of faith, were impossible. “The connection with the outside world was much larger than the consequences of what I was caught with the phone,” he said, referring to another violation brought up by the early liberation board.
Family members testified on his behalf. Later, relatives made a statement called disappointed, but still adhered to “unshakable” beliefs in Eric and stated that they would continue to stand next to him.
The Menentes case restored the attention of the public thanks to recent documentaries and dramatization, including Netflix row “Monsters: the story of Lyle and Eric Menendes.”
57 -Lyle Menendes is faced with his own hearing on conditionally and main release on Friday.
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