Lyle Menendez Denied Parole
The decision came a day after his brother Erik was also ordered to remain in prison for the murder of their parents more than three decades ago.
Menendez brothers
A judicial panel on Friday denied parole to Joseph Lyle Menendez, a day after his brother Erik was also ordered to remain in prison for the murder of their parents more than three decades ago.
Friday's hearing, which was closed to the public, lasted 11 hours and was held separately from Thursday's hearing for his brother Erik, 54.
Lyle, 57, "was denied three years' probation today at his initial suitability hearing," California Corrections and Rehabilitation Services officials said, after failing to convince the panel that he is no longer a public menace.
The brothers will be able to ask for a reevaluation of their cases in three years.
Friday's hearing came just over 36 years after the murder of their parents Jose and Kitty Menendez, in what prosecutors alleged was a cynical attempt by their sons to grab the family fortune.
A case of patricide
They initially tried to put together an alibi and blamed the brutal murder on the mob. Erik, at the time 18 years old, confessed to the murders in a session with his psychotherapist.
His trial in the 1990s was one of the most watched on American television and his story came back under the spotlight with the hit Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.
After several years, the brothers claimed to have acted in self-defense for alleged emotional and sexual abuse by their father.
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