A parole board rejected Lyle Menendez’s plea a day after it turned down a similar request from his brother, Erik
Lyle Menendez was denied parole on Friday by the same board that a day earlier rejected his brother Erik’s appeal for freedom after serving decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion.
The reason was the same: misbehaviour behind bars.
A panel of two commissioners denied the 57-year-old parole, noting that he still displayed “antisocial personality traits like deception, minimisation and rule-breaking that lie beneath that positive surface”.
“Joseph [Lyle] Menendez was denied parole for three years at his initial suitability hearing today,” read a brief statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
