Erik and Lyle Menendez will face a California parole board this week who may free them from prison after more than 30 years for killing their parents.
Aug. 21 Erik and Lyle Menendez will face a California parole board beginning Thursday who may free them from prison after more than 30 years for killing their parents.
Erik is scheduled for an initial suitability hearing, or parole hearing, at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in Los Angeles. Lyle is slated to appear before the parole board at the same location and time Friday.
The Menendez brothers were resentenced in May to 50 years to life in prison, which made them eligible for parole. Both were originally serving life sentences without the possibility of parole after being convicted of first-degree murder in the 1989 shooting deaths of their parents at their family’s Beverly Hills home.
Commissioners will review testimony from other family members and prosecutors, while also considering how the brothers behaved while in prison, their criminal histories and potential future plans if released.
