The Menendez brothers will present their cases for parole, marking the closest they have come to securing freedom since their convictions nearly 30 years ago for murdering their parents.
Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life imprisonment for fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989. They were 18 and 21 at the time. Defense attorneys argued the brothers acted in self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father; prosecutors claimed they murdered their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
