LOS ANGELES -- Eyewitness News has learned that Erik Menendez is out of the hospital and back in prison.

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says the 54-year-old was hospitalized last month with kidney stones.

Erik and his brother Lyle have a scheduled parole hearing at the end of this month.

The brothers were convicted of murdering their father, Jose Menendez - a powerful record executive - and their mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989. While defense attorneys argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

Their first trials resulted in hung juries. At the second trial for both brothers, the judge excluded a substan

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