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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 without possibil

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