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Laura Coates Live

Parole Board To Erik Melendez: “You Have Not Been A Model Prisoner”

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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A California parole board has denied parole for Erik Menendez, who was convicted alongside his brother Lyle of murdering their parents in 1989, delivering a crippling blow to the brothers’ yearslong fight for release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Laura Coates. It's almost been 35 years to the day. In fact, 36, that Eric and Lyle Menendez killed their parents in their Beverly Hills home. It'd be seven years before they were convicted of those murders. Another 29 years before they would be before a parole board asking for their freedom.

1:16.2

And now, breaking tonight the answer.

1:21.8

While the Menendez, Boers, at least one of them tonight, is staying behind bars for now.

1:26.9

Eric Menendez was just denied parole by the California Parole Board.

1:31.9

This picture was from his hearing today, which lasted over 10 hours.

1:35.9

And the parole commissioner says that he doesn't buy his explanation for the killings,

1:41.2

that his behavior in jail, since he's been locked up, kicks the can down the road.

1:46.6

The board says he can try again for parole in three years. Now, Eric's brother,

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