{"id":479790,"date":"2025-08-23T08:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lyle-menendez-denied-parole-for-murder-of-parents\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:29:22","slug":"lyle-menendez-denied-parole-for-murder-of-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/lyle-menendez-denied-parole-for-murder-of-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyle Men\u00e9ndez Denied Parole for Murder of Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"California, USA \u2013 A California judicial commission denied parole this Friday to Joseph Lyle Men\u00e9ndez, convicted along with his brother Erik for the murder of their parents in 1989, a case that shocked the United States and continues to generate interest more than three decades later.\n\nAccording to reports from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Lyle, 57, &#8220;was denied parole for three years at his initial suitability hearing,&#8221; failing to convince the panel that he poses a reduced risk to society.\n\nThe decision comes one day after his brother Erik Men\u00e9ndez also received a denial of his parole request, implying that both will continue to serve their life sentences without the possibility of bail.\n\n<strong>The Men\u00e9ndez Case<\/strong>\n\nIn 1989, Lyle and Erik shot their parents, Jos\u00e9 and Kitty Men\u00e9ndez, in their Beverly Hills mansion. During the trials, the brothers claimed to have been victims of years of physical and sexual abuse, while the prosecution maintained that they acted out of economic ambition, as they sought to inherit the family fortune.\n\nFinally, they were found guilty of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to life in prison.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Next steps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nWith this decision, Lyle will not be able to reapply for parole for another three years; in the meantime, he will continue to serve his sentence in a California state prison, where he remains incarcerated alongside his brother Erik.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California, USA \u2013 A California judicial commission denied parole this Friday to Joseph Lyle Men\u00e9ndez, convicted along with his brother Erik for the murder of their parents in 1989, a case that shocked the United States and continues to generate interest more than three decades later. According to reports from the California Department of Corrections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":479791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[42036],"class_list":["post-479790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-rejects-freedom"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-20Oy","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG_9724.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/IMG_9724.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}