The Menendez siblings have actually endured a brand-new problem in their relocate to be launched from jail after 3 years as a court on Tuesday refuted their habeas corpus request to toss out their sentence and obtain a brand-new test based upon lately uncovered proof.
Erik and Lyle Menendez’s habeas corpus request was sent in 2023 to attempt to obtain one more test based upon brand-new proof not initially provided in court.
The request provided 2 items of brand-new proof. One was claims from a previous participant of the kid band Menudo, that exposed in the 2023 docuseries “Menendez + Menudo: Children Betrayed” that he was raped by Jose Menendez. The secondly was a letter Erik Menendez contacted his relative 8 months prior to the murders describing his claimed misuse; the relative affirmed regarding the claimed misuse at test, yet the letter– which would certainly have affirmed the relative’s statement– had not been discovered till a number of years back, according to the siblings’ lawyer.
Erik Menendez attends his Board of Parole hearing online from the Richard J. Donovan Reformatory in San Diego, Calif., August 21, 2025.
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The letter from Andy Cano, the relative, from 1988 regarding misuse was evaluated roughly, also stating it got the siblings’ efforts for a brand-new test.
” Neither item of recently uncover (sic) proof is specifically solid,” Court William Ryan created in the choice. “The Cano Letter negates partly the statement of Erik and Cano. It likewise just substantiates what was currently talked about in detail by both witnesses: the both talked about Jose’s misuse. At ideal, it does not furthermore educate the court of Petitioners’ claimed anxiety at the time of the murders, and at even worse, it places a split in the reputation of both witnesses.”
The court likewise contested the importance of statement from Roy Rossello, the participant of Menudo.
” When It Comes To the Rosello Statement, it substantiates the basic accusation that Jose was sexually violent of children and boys, yet is not pertinent to the Petitioners’ frame of mind at the time of the murders,” he proceeded. “Neither item of proof contributes to the claims of misuse that the court currently taken into consideration, yet discovered that the siblings prepared, after that performed that strategy, to eliminate their violent daddy and complicit mom.”
Los Angeles Area Area Lawyer Nathan Hochman, that is securely opposed to the siblings’ launch, submitted a feedback to the habeas corpus request this month, mentioning that he “ended that this request does not resemble fulfilling the valid or lawful requirement to necessitate a brand-new test.”
” The main protection of the Menendez siblings at test has actually constantly been self-defense, not sexual assault. The court declined this protection protection in locating them guilty of the dreadful murders they carried out; 5 various appellate state and government courts have actually verified those sentences, and absolutely nothing in the supposed ‘brand-new’ proof tests any one of those decisions,” Hochman stated in a declaration. “Our resistance to this ‘Hailstorm Mary’ initiative to acquire a brand-new test over thirty years later on explains that justice, the realities, and the regulation need the sentences stand.”
Lyle Menendez attends his Board of Parole hearing online from the Richard J. Donovan Reformatory in San Diego, Calif., August 22, 2025.
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The siblings were dealt a significant impact to attaining liberty when they were refuted parole at hearings last month.
This Might, a court resentenced them to half a century to life behind bars, making them promptly qualified for parole under young people wrongdoer parole regulations. The court stated he was relocated by the encouraging letters from warder and was astonished by the job the siblings had actually completed to much better the lives of their fellow prisoners.
In different hearings, commissioners worried just how the siblings consistently damaged regulations in jail, like unlawful mobile phone usage.
The siblings can request parole once more in 3 years. With etiquette behind bars, that wait can possibly be reduced to 18 months.
The most effective opportunity to launch currently might be clemency, which The golden state Gov. Gavin Newsom can provide any time.
