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Erik and Lyle Menendezs Attorney Reveals Whether They Have a Plan If They Are Released From Prison” width=”400″ height=”225″ data-fallback-img=”/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Erik-and-lyle-Menendezs-Attorney-Reveals-whether-they-Have-a-Plan-If-They-Are-Released-From-Prison-1.jpg?quality=51&strip=all”/>As Lyle and Erik Menéndez’s new parole hearings approach, their attorney, Mark Geragos, addressed the question of their post-release plans. Speaking with Us Weekly and other reporters at a press conference held by the Menéndez family on Wednesday, October 16, Geragos stated, “I won’t speak to whether [Erik and Lyle] have a plan.”
The brothers are currently serving life sentences for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menéndez, in their Beverly Hills, California home.The case garnered national attention due to the brothers’ claims of enduring years of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse at the hands of their father.
Geragos stressed he had no proof the hearings were rigged but argued that Erik and Lyle should have been strong candidates for parole. “It was Kabuki theater,” he alleged, referencing the conventional Japanese art form. “[If] you remember during the resentencing hearing [that] there was all kinds of shenanigans by the board of parole to the point where the judge … actually stood up on the bench and on the record and said, ‘This is stupid.'”
According to Geragos, the parole commissioners’ alleged attempt to change the post-release risk assessment was ”beyond the pale.”
Erik’s wife, Tammi, shared a similar critique following her husband’s hearing on Thursday, October 17.
“Parole Commissioner Robert Barton had his mind made up to deny Erik parole from the start,” she claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter). ”This was a complete setup, and Erik never stood a chance! #injustice.”
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