{"id":2027998,"date":"2025-09-17T03:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2027998"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:54:14","slug":"erik-and-lyle-menendez-retrial-rejected-after-parole-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/erik-and-lyle-menendez-retrial-rejected-after-parole-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik and Lyle Menendez Retrial Rejected After Parole Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Erik Men\u00e9ndez<\/strong> and Lyle Men\u00e9ndez<\/strong>\u2019s bid for a retrial was rejected less than one month after the brothers were denied parole.<\/p>\n

According to a Tuesday, September 16, report by The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, the convicted murderers\u2019 request was denied by Los Angeles Superior Court\u2019s Judge William C. Ryan<\/strong> one day prior. The rejection followed each of the brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents, Jos\u00e9<\/strong> and Kitty Men\u00e9ndez<\/strong>, in 1989, being denied parole<\/a> amid two individual August hearings.<\/p>\n

The rejected retrial, requested by the brothers\u2019 lawyers in May 2023, cements failed attempts for reduced convictions, with Erik, 57, and Lyle, 54, both currently serving 50 years to life in prison after a May 2025 resentencing made them eligible for parole. (They were sentenced to life imprisonment<\/a> without parole in 1996 following an initial mistrial where jurors could not reach a unanimous decision amid evidence surrounding alleged abuse at the hands of the brothers\u2019 parents.)<\/p>\n

Erik and Lyle\u2019s 2023 retrial request included two fresh pieces of evidence that came to light following the release of the Peacock docuseries Men\u00e9ndez + Menudo: Boys Betrayed<\/em>. (Public recognition of Erik and Lyle\u2019s conviction grew exponentially when Netflix later released the Ryan Murphy<\/strong> production Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Men\u00e9ndez Story<\/em><\/a> in October 2024.)<\/p>\n

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\n Related: <\/span>Could Menendez Brothers Be Released From Prison? Appeal Process Explained<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tErik and Lyle Menendez\u2018s murder case was thrust back into the spotlight with Ryan Murphy\u2018s Monsters \u2014 but could they walk free after years behind bars? The Men\u00e9ndez brothers\u2019 parents, Jos\u00e9 and Kitty Men\u00e9ndez, were found dead at their Beverly Hills home in 1989. After Lyle called the police, they discovered Jos\u00e9 was shot six [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One piece of evidence included a letter Erik allegedly wrote at the age of 17 to his cousin Andy Cano<\/strong> that detailed claims of his father sexually abusing him.<\/p>\n

The second piece of evidence was a declaration from Roy Rossell\u00f3<\/strong>, a member of the musical ground Menudo, who claimed that Jos\u00e9 sexually abused him in 1983.<\/p>\n

In a 16-page letter that detailed his rejection of the retrial request, obtained by The New York Times<\/em>, Judge Ryan deemed the evidence as not \u201cparticularly strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per the outlet, the rejection included Judge Ryan\u2019s words: \u201cThe purported new evidence that slightly corroborates that petitioners were sexually abused, does not negate the finding of premeditation and deliberation and the lying-in-wait special circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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