{"id":1976839,"date":"2025-08-24T02:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976839"},"modified":"2025-08-24T02:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T02:42:38","slug":"erik-and-lyle-menendezs-attorney-claims-parole-hearing-was-rigged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/erik-and-lyle-menendezs-attorney-claims-parole-hearing-was-rigged\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik and Lyle Menendez’s Attorney Claims Parole Hearing Was ‘Rigged’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Geragos<\/strong>, an attorney representing Erik<\/strong> and Lyle Menendez<\/strong>, is speaking out after their respective parole applications were denied.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was obviously rigged,\u201d Geragos, 67, claimed during a Saturday, August 23, appearance on TMZ<\/a>\u2019s \u201c2 Angry Men\u201d podcast. \u201cIt was unbelievable what a s***show this was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erik, 54, and Lyle, 57, were convicted of first-degree murder<\/a> in 1996 after they confessed to killing their parents nearly 10 years prior. While the siblings both claimed their actions were out of self-defense following years of abuse, they were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

After a Netflix documentary and scripted series about Erik and Lyle sparked renewed interest in the case, the Los Angeles District Attorney recommended in 2024 that the brothers be resentenced. A judge reduced their sentences<\/a> in May to 50 years to life with the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n

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\n Related: <\/span>Erik Menendez’s Wife Tammi: Parole Denial Is a ‘Setup’ and ‘Injustice’<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tErik Menendez\u2019s wife, Tammi Menendez, called his parole denial a \u201ccomplete setup\u201d and an \u201cinjustice.\u201d \u201cParole Commissioner Robert Barton had his mind made up to deny Erik parole from the start! This was a complete setup, and Erik never stood a chance! \ud83d\ude21 #Injustice,\u201d Tammi shared in an X post on Thursday, August 21, shortly [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

News broke on Thursday, August 21, that Erik was denied parole<\/a>, one day before Lyle\u2019s hearing. Lyle stood before a different panel of parole commissioners on Friday, August 22, who also recommended that he should not be released on parole. The panel specifically claimed that Lyle had multiple phone violations<\/a> from his time behind bars.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It was a reporter who pointed out] that one of the commissioners during Lyle\u2019s actually likened cell phone activity to gang activity, which has got to be the height of hypocrisy and talking about how it threatens correctional officers,\u201d Geragos said, claiming officers often smuggle the devices into the prisons. \u201cFirst of all, they have tablets [and] they got phones. They pay per minute. The only person who doesn\u2019t profit or get impacted financially by cell phone usage in the prisons is the for-profit suppliers.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThe idea that a cell phone is going to be the reason that you\u2019re not going \u2014 in this society [and] in this day and age of AI, where you\u2019re trying to talk about people coming out and having some kind of a transition. The record is replete, with Lyle especially, that he would not fight back when he was attacked in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tAs Lyle and Erik Men\u00e9ndez\u2018s new hearing approaches, do the brothers have any set plans amid the possibility of their release from prison? Their attorney Mark Geragos spoke with Us Weekly and other reporters at a press conference held by the Men\u00e9ndez family on Wednesday, October 16, saying, \u201cI won\u2019t speak to whether [Erik and [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Geragos stressed that he had no proof that the hearings were actually rigged but argued that Erik and Lyle should have been good candidates for parole.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Kabuki theatre,\u201d he alleged, referencing the traditional Japanese art form. \u201c[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 \u2026 actually stood up on the bench and on the record and said, \u2018This is stupid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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