Mark Geragos, an lawyer representing Erik and Lyle Menendez, is talking out after their respective parole functions have been denied.
“It was clearly rigged,” Geragos, 67, claimed throughout a Saturday, August 23, look on TMZ’s “2 Offended Males” podcast. “It was unbelievable what a s***present this was.”
Erik, 54, and Lyle, 57, have been convicted of first-degree homicide in 1996 after they confessed to killing their mother and father practically 10 years prior. Whereas the siblings each claimed their actions have been out of self-defense following years of abuse, they have been sentenced to life in jail with out the potential for parole.
After a Netflix documentary and scripted sequence about Erik and Lyle sparked renewed curiosity within the case, the Los Angeles District Legal professional really useful in 2024 that the brothers be resentenced. A decide lowered their sentences in Could to 50 years to life with the potential for parole.
Information broke on Thursday, August 21, that Erik was denied parole, in the future earlier than Lyle’s listening to. Lyle stood earlier than a unique panel of parole commissioners on Friday, August 22, who additionally really useful that he shouldn’t be launched on parole. The panel particularly claimed that Lyle had a number of cellphone violations from his time behind bars.
“[It was a reporter who pointed out] that one of many commissioners throughout Lyle’s truly likened mobile phone exercise to gang exercise, which has acquired to be the peak of hypocrisy and speaking about the way it threatens correctional officers,” Geragos mentioned, claiming officers usually smuggle the gadgets into the prisons. “Initially, they’ve tablets [and] they acquired telephones. They pay per minute. The one one who doesn’t revenue or get impacted financially by mobile phone utilization within the prisons is the for-profit suppliers.”
He added, “The concept a mobile phone goes to be the rationale that you simply’re not going — on this society [and] at the moment of AI, the place you’re attempting to speak about folks popping out and having some type of a transition. The document is replete, with Lyle particularly, that he wouldn’t battle again when he was attacked in jail.”
As Lyle and Erik Menéndez‘s new listening to approaches, do the brothers have any set plans amid the potential for their launch from jail? Their lawyer Mark Geragos spoke with Us Weekly and different reporters at a press convention held by the Menéndez household on Wednesday, October 16, saying, “I gained’t converse as to whether [Erik and […]
Geragos confused that he had no proof that the hearings have been truly rigged however argued that Erik and Lyle ought to have been good candidates for parole.
“It was Kabuki theatre,” he alleged, referencing the standard Japanese artwork type. “[If] you keep in mind in the course of the resentencing listening to [that] there was all types of shenanigans by the board of parole to the purpose the place the decide … truly stood up on the bench and on the document and mentioned, ‘That is silly.’”
In response to Geragos, the parole commissioners’ alleged try to alter the post-release danger evaluation was “past the pale.”
Erik’s spouse, Tammi, shared an analogous critique after her husband’s listening to on Thursday.
“Parole Commissioner Robert Barton had his thoughts made as much as deny Erik parole from the beginning,” she claimed in an X put up. “This was a whole setup, and Erik by no means stood an opportunity! #injustice.”
