Los Angeles —

Starting Thursday, Erik and Lyle Menendez will take turns facing a California parole board that will decide whether the brothers should have a chance at freedom after spending more than three decades behind bars for the 1989 killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills home.

The brothers are newly eligible for release after a judge resentenced them in May , marking a stunning victory for the Menendezes and their family, who have long been fighting to overturn their original sentences of life without parole.

The brothers will face the California Board of Parole Hearings separately: Erik on Thursday and Lyle on Friday.

Even if parole is granted, their release could still depend on the final decision of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has the rare power to affirm

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