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Menendez Bros just got an update on their possible parole

Lyle and Erik Menendez during murder trial Menendez brothers Los Angeles March 1994
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Lyle and Erik Menendez

The brothers were recently resentenced for the murders of their parents in 1989.

The Menendez brothers just got an update on their possible parole hearing.

Erik and Lyle Menendez's parole hearing has officially been pushed back two months to August, their attorneys said, according to AP News.

The two brothers were part of a highly publicized trial where they were eventually sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering their father and mother in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.

The brothers and their trial were the subjects of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story. The show starred Cooper Koch as Erik and Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle, alongside Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny as their parents.

The show stirred up renewed interest in the case with Koch visiting the brothers in prison and making several statements calling for their release.

In May of this year, the brothers were resentenced by a Los Angeles judge. Their sentences were reduced from life without the possibility of parole to 50 years with the possibility of parole.

An update was posted on Lyle Menendez's Facebook page, which reads:

"Taking a break from my break to confirm the news that has been reported today. The guys’ parole hearing date has been postponed to August 21/22. Given the fact that first-time parole seekers statistically have a much harder time being granted parole, this gives the guys and their attorneys more time to prepare and gives them the best opportunity to be the exception to the rule! It’s a good thing."

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Mey Rude

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.