Erik Menendez is searching for to be launched from jail as he receives therapy for a severe medical situation forward of his parole listening to subsequent month, his legal professional stated this week.
Legal professional Mark Geragos declined to share the specifics of the 54-year-old’s situation in an interview with TMZ. However sources acquainted with Erik’s therapy advised The Instances he’s affected by extreme kidney stones and problems arising from the situation, and desires intensive medical therapy.
Geragos didn’t instantly reply to a textual content message searching for remark from The Instances on Tuesday.
Geragos advised TMZ he’ll ask Gov. Gavin Newsom to launch Erik instantly forward of the brothers’ look earlier than the parole board.
“It’s a severe situation and he wants, I believe, to be out so he can concentrate on the listening to,” Geragos advised TMZ, including that he thinks releasing him early could be “the suitable factor to do.”
Erik Menendez and his brother, Lyle, have spent greater than 35 years in jail for killing their mother and father in 1989 in a case that over the previous 12 months has gained renewed public consideration following the discharge of Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and varied documentaries.
The brothers got an opportunity at freedom in Might when an L.A. County choose granted a request to resentence them.
Superior Court docket Choose Michael Jesic’s determination to condemn the brothers to 50 years to life got here after hours of testimony from relations who stated the brothers had spent sufficient time behind bars for the brutal killings of their mother and father. The brothers had been serving life phrases with out the opportunity of parole.
If the parole board recommends releasing the brothers in August, the choice will probably be despatched to Newsom for consideration.
