The Menendez brothers, who’ve been locked up for decades for killing their parents in 1989, were dealt another setback in their quest to be released from prison on Monday when a Los Angeles County judge denied their motion for a new trial.

Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of murder in connection with the August 1989 shotgun killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills home.

The brothers argued in the motion, filed in 2023, that new evidence supported their long-asserted claims that they were sexually abused by their father, Jose Menendez, a wealthy business and former music executive. They said their mother, Kitty Menendez, had been complicit.

Included in that evidence was a letter from Erik Menendez to a cousin, which the brothers' said supported their claims, and a declaratio

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