A California Review Board denied this Friday the request for probation to Lyle Menéndezwho runs with The same fate as his brother and both will remain in prison fulfilling the perpetual chain penalty for the murder of their parents in 1989.
During the hearing, one of the state panel commissioners said that the murders committed by the Menéndez on August 20, 1989 show “A notable level of instability and hate towards the other”so it was considered denying Lyle’s request to obtain a substitute measure.
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Lyle received the refusal, the same answer his brother, Erik, received on Thursday. Both will continue to pay their sentence in the Correctional of Richard Donovan, located in San Diego, California, a few kilometers from the border with Mexico.
The Menéndez family said, in a statement, that they are “Disappointed” For the decision of the Review Board but they will continue to seek legal measures to achieve their release and expect the resources presented to be reviewed by another court in the city of Los Angeles.
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The judicial decisions cut the way to the freedom of both brothers, who murdered their parents at their home in Beverly Hills.
The Menéndez brothers murdered their parents, José and Kitty Menéndezwith shotguns while watching television. The case generated national commotion for the wealthy profile of the family and the brutality of the crime.
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The homicides were sentenced to life imprisonment without probation in 1996, after two media judgments.
The defense of the murderers alleged sexual abuse, but the jury did not consider it enough to justify the double homicide. Since then, Erik and Lyle Menéndez They remained separately, until 2018 when they reunited for an hour in a room guarded.
