Menendez Brothers ELIGIBLE FOR PAROL
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Erik and Lyle Menendez, wearing blue prison uniforms, listened as relatives broke down in tears, begging the judge to set them free during the first day of a two-day hearing.
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Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing begins in wake of risk assessment updateA resentencing hearing to determine whether Eric and Lyle Menendez, who killed their parents in their Beverly Hills home decades ago, is underway Tuesday, just days after a new assessment changed the brothers’ risk status.
In August 1989, the brothers killed their father Jose Menendez and mother Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills home.
Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty Menendez, the parents of Erik and Lyle Menendez, were shot and killed in their Beverly Hills mansion in August 1989. In July 1996, the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Netflix may revisit The Menendez brothers' story as their resentencing opens the door to parole, decades after their infamous 1989 conviction.
A judge ruled Friday that a resentencing hearing for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez can go forward next week, potentially clearing a path to parole decades after they killed their parents.