What to Know • Parole hearings are scheduled for Thursday and Friday in the decades-old case of the Menendez brothers. • Erik Menendez’s parole hearing is scheduled for Thursday with Lyle Menendez’s proceeding set for Friday. • If granted, parole could mean freedom for the brothers after more than 30 years in prison for the shotgun murders of their parents in 1989 at the family’s Beverly Hills mansion. • Sometime after the hearings, the parole hearing panel will announce a written decision, but that decision is not final. • A grant of parole is subject to reviews from the California Board of Parole chief counsel and Gov. Gavin Newsom as part of a process that could take months. • The path to the parole hearings was cleared when the brothers, serving life prison sentences withou

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