Erik Menéndez has been diagnosed with a “serious medical condition,” said his lawyer on Tuesday, weeks before the convicted murderer appears at a probation hearing with his brother for the murders of his parents more than three decades ago.
A spokesman for lawyer Mark Geragos did not provide details of the condition, and Menéndez’s family declined to comment.
Menéndez, who is in a San Diego prison, was taken to an external medical center on Friday and remains in just conditions, said a spokesman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of California.
TMZ first reported development.
Erik, 54, and Lyle, 57, were forwarded in May 50 years in prison for Kitty and José Menéndez’s shotgun murders on August 20, 1989, after a Los Angeles judge discovered that they did not raise an “unreasonable risk” if they were released.
They had been fulfilling terms of prison life without the possibility of probation, but the judge’s ruling made them eligible for probation immediately.
Your probation audience of probation is scheduled for August 20 and 21.
During the resentment hearing of May 13, Erik described his crimes as “cruel and vicious” and said he was “directly responsible for everything.”
The brothers, who were tried twice in the 1990s, said the murders were committed in self -defense after Lyle said, faced his father for his alleged abuse of Erik.
The prosecutors said the reason was financial gain and described the murders as cold blood.
The first trial ended without a unanimous verdict. On March 20, 1996, after a second trial, the brothers were convicted of first degree murder.
The impulse for its launch, which included the support of his family and some high profile figures, occurred after the case was examined in recent years in a Peacock documentary and a Netflix series. (Peacock is owned by NBCuniversal, the NBC News parent company).
The supporters cited the abuse that the brothers said they suffered at the hands of their father and their rehabilitation efforts while they were imprisoned, that the former district prosecutor of the Los Angeles County, George Gascón, described as “exceptional.”
The successor of Gascón, Nathan Hochman, opposed his resentment and sought unsuccessfully to keep them imprisoned. He said they could not “clean” about a series of unrecognized lies that said they said about the murders.
