Lyle Menendez also faced a setback in his parole bid the day after the board rejected his brother Erik’s request for freedom after more than three decades.
According to Sky News, Lyle, the older of the infamous Menendez brothers, was denied parole by the California Parole Board on Friday, August 22, the day after the rejection of younger brother Erik’s bid.
The 57- and 54-year-old brothers received life sentences without the possibility of parole in 1996 for murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in Los Angeles in 1989.
This was Lyle’s first bid for parole after a judge last year reduced his and Erik’s sentences and made them eligible for release.
Rejecting the request, Parole Commissioner Julie Garland said that the panel had found that Lyle still posed a risk to the public.
She stated, “In many ways, you look like you've been a model inmate. You have been a model inmate in many ways who has demonstrated the potential for change. But despite all those outward positives, we see ... you still struggle with antisocial personality traits like deception, minimisation and rule-breaking that lie beneath that positive surface."
Don’t ever not have hope … This denial is not … It’s not the end. It’s a way for you to spend some time to demonstrate, to practise what you preach about who you are, who you want to be,” Garland added.
However, a panel of two commissioners decided that Lyle cannot be released for three-year after that, he can apply for parole again.
