LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday. His brother will be next to plead his case before a parole board, on Friday.

Their separate hearings this week come nearly 30 years the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder in 1995 for the 1989 killings of their parents. They were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996.

But after a Los Angeles judge reduced their sentences to 50 years to life in May, they immediately became eligible for parole under California law because they were under age 26 when they committed their crimes.

Who are the Menendez brothers, and what did they do?

Lyle and Erik Menendez are the sons of Jose and Kitty Menendez. Jose, a Cuban-American business executive who at one time was an executive at RCA Records, moved his family fro

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