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Lyle Menendez goes before a California parole board panel to learn whether he will remain in prison for the 1989 shotgun murders of his parents.

The elder Menendez brother's parole hearing comes 36 years and two days after the murders at the family's Beverly Hills mansion.

Younger brother Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday after a marathon 10-hour hearing when he faced tough questions about his criminal past and time in prison.

If approved for parole, the matter goes to a review by parole board counsel before heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk in a process that can take months .

If parole is denied , the brothers still have two paths to freedom -- clemency granted by the governor and a court petition that cites new evidence in the decades-old case.

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