Menendez brother Lyle goes before parole panel – NBC Los Angeles

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 marathon 10-hour hearing when he faced tough questions about his criminal past and time in prison.
• If approved for parole, the matter 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, the brothers still have 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.
• The Menendez brothers are appearing for the hearing on a video feed from a prison in San Diego.