Erik and Lyle Menendez
Will They Ever Be Launched From Jail???
Subsequent Listening to Postponed
Revealed
Erik and Lyle Menendez should chew their nails a bit longer earlier than discovering out whether or not they’ll get launched from jail … as a result of the parole board has kicked their listening to date down the street.
The Menendez brothers had been slated to go earlier than the California parole board on June 13 after a decide resentenced them earlier this month to 50 years to life for the notorious 1989 shotgun murders of their mother and father, Kitty and Jose Menendez.
After two trials, Erik and Lyle had been lastly convicted in 1996 and initially sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole.
Throughout the current resentencing listening to in L.A. County Superior Courtroom, Choose Michael Jesic mentioned the brothers wouldn’t pose “an unreasonable risk” if launched from Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility close to San Diego, the place they’re at present incarcerated.
On account of the decide’s ruling, California Governor Gavin Newsom scrapped his clemency board listening to scheduled for June 13, making room for the parole suitability listening to as an alternative.
TMZ.com
Newsom has been very a lot concerned in the entire course of. In February, Newsom requested the parole board to supply a clemency analysis for Erik and Lyle partly to “assist inform the decide within the resentencing.”
If the parole board recommends the brothers’ launch, it is then as much as Newsom to place his stamp of approval on it, which might finally result in their freedom. Whether or not that can occur is anybody’s guess. Maintain your eyes on the calendar.
