Mark Geragos, an legal professional representing Erik and Lyle Menendez, is talking out after their respective parole functions had 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, had been convicted of first-degree homicide in 1996 after they confessed to killing their mother and father almost 10 years prior. Whereas the siblings each claimed their actions had been out of self-defense following years of abuse, they had been sentenced to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole.
After a Netflix documentary and scripted collection 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 choose lowered their sentences in Might to 50 years to life with the opportunity of parole.
Information broke on Thursday, August 21, that Erik was denied parole, at some point 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 really likened cellular phone exercise to gang exercise, which has bought to be the peak of hypocrisy and speaking about the way it threatens correctional officers,” Geragos stated, claiming officers typically smuggle the gadgets into the prisons. “To begin with, they've tablets [and] they bought telephones. They pay per minute. The one one that doesn't revenue or get impacted financially by cellular phone utilization within the prisons is the for-profit suppliers.”
He added, “The concept a cellular 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 report is replete, with Lyle particularly, that he wouldn't combat 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 opportunity of their launch from jail? Their legal professional Mark Geragos spoke with Us Weekly and different reporters at a press convention held by the Menéndez household on Wednesday, October 16, saying, “I received't converse as to if [Erik and […]
Geragos harassed that he had no proof that the hearings had been really rigged however argued that Erik and Lyle ought to have been good candidates for parole.
“It was Kabuki theatre,” he alleged, referencing the normal Japanese artwork type. “[If] you bear in mind throughout the resentencing listening to [that] there was every kind of shenanigans by the board of parole to the purpose the place the choose … really stood up on the bench and on the report and stated, ‘That is silly.'”
In keeping with Geragos, the parole commissioners' alleged try to vary the post-release danger evaluation was “past the pale.”
Erik's spouse, Tammi, shared the same 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 an entire setup, and Erik by no means stood an opportunity! #injustice.”
