Lyle Menendez received the same recommendation as his brother Erik when he was denied parole Friday after serving decades in prison for the .

A panel of two commissioners denied Menendez parole for three years, after which he will be eligible again, in a case that continues to fascinate the public.

The brothers were for fatally shooting their father, Jose Menendez, and mother, Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion almost exactly 36 years ago on Aug. 20, 1989. While defense attorneys argued that the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father, prosecutors said the brothers sought a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

A judge in May, and they became immediately eligible for parole. The parole hearings marked the closest they have come to winning fr

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