After more than three decades behind bars for the 1989 murder of their parents, this week Erik and Lyle Menendez are finally standing before a California parole board in separate, virtual hearings that — after a series of revelations, an online rally and multiple TV series based on their cases — could chart a path toward their release.

Erik Menendez , now 54, is appearing via video link from Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego. He will be facing a two- to three-person panel of parole commissioners and will be presenting his case for release under the resentenced term of 50 years to life — which in July was reduced down from his original without-parole sentence in 1996.

After more than three decades behind bars for the 1989 murder of their parents, this week Erik

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