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Erik Menendez was denied parole primarily due to his misconduct in prison.

Lyle Menendez's parole hearing will take place on Friday, and family members will be there to support him.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom can override the parole board’s decisions due to a 1988 California law.

On Thursday, 36 years and one day after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents, Erik was denied parole ahead of Lyle’s parole hearing on Friday.

The hearings this week are the brothers’ first-ever parole hearings after they were resentenced in May from life in prison without the possibility of parole to 50 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole, per CNN.

Erik Menendez, 54, attended the hearing, which lasted nearly 10 hours, via video from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional

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