Los Angeles —

After serving several decades in prison, Erik and Lyle Menendez are facing the possibility of freedom as the California Board of Parole Hearings this week considers whether they’ve adequately atoned for the 1989 murder of their parents.

While this may seem like the final moment in the long and captivating saga, refueled by several attempts by the brothers’ lawyers and the former district attorney to achieve what they say is a more modern version of justice, the brothers have one more potential roadblock – California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The governor holds an unusual power that allows him to “affirm, modify, or reverse the decision of the parole authority on the basis of the same factors which the parole authority is required to consider” for someone convicted of murder a

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