One day after a state parole board panel rejected his younger brother’s bid to be freed from prison, a separate panel denied parole for Lyle Menendez, who has served nearly 35 years behind bars for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion.
After a daylong hearing Aug. 22 that stretched into the evening hours and included Lyle Menendez saying that he “will be forever sorry,” Parole Commissioner Julie Garland said the panel found that there are still signs that he poses a risk to the public.
