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Key steps will follow this week's dual parole hearings for Lyle and Erik Menendez in a multi-layered process that could result in their freedom after more than 30 years in prison for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents at the family's Beverly Hills mansion.

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Erik Menendez's parole suitability hearing is scheduled for Thursday, with Lyle Menendez's hearing set for Friday. The brothers, whose paths to parole were cleared when they were resentenced earlier this year, will appear for the hearings on a video feed from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.

Parole hearings before a panel of two to three hearing officers usually take about two to three hours with a written decision de

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