After the board denied his brother parole on Thursday, Lyle Menendez will try to convince a separate panel of commissioners to release him after serving decades in prison for killing his parents.

Menendez is scheduled to appear virtually from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego on Friday.

Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering their parents, Kitty and Jose Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home. In May, a judge reduced their sentences to 50 years to life , making them eligible for parole under California's youth offender law because they were under the age of 26 when they committed their crimes.

The brothers have maintained that they acted in self-defense after suffering years of al

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