Menendez brothers eligible for parole
Digest more
In August 1989, the brothers killed their father Jose Menendez and mother Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills home.
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.
KTLA-TV Los Angeles on MSN2d
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.
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.
A two-day resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez begins Tuesday. Follow live updates below.
Netflix may revisit The Menendez brothers' story as their resentencing opens the door to parole, decades after their infamous 1989 conviction.
Legal experts' weighed in following the resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez after a California judge ruled that the convicted killers would be immediately eligible for parole.