Erik Menéndez and Lyle Menéndez’s bid for a retrial was rejected less than one month after the brothers were denied parole.

According to a Tuesday, September 16, report by The New York Times, the convicted murderers’ request was denied by Los Angeles Superior Court’s Judge William C. Ryan one day prior. The rejection followed each of the brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez, in 1989, being denied parole amid two individual August hearings.

The rejected retrial, requested by the brothers’ lawyers in May 2023, cements failed attempts for reduced convictions, with Erik, 57, and Lyle, 54, both currently serving 50 years to life in prison after a May 2025 resentencing made them eligible for parole. (They were sentenced to life imprisonment without p

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