Los Angeles – A California judge rejected a request for a new trial for Eric and Laila Mindez, and closed another possible path to freedom for brotherhood who spent contracts in prison to kill their parents in 1989 at Beverly Hills Palace.
On Monday by Los Angeles Supreme Court judge, William C Ryan comes just weeks after the brotherhood of the conditional release is deprived. Ryan denied the petition in May 2023 a request to review their convictions based on new evidence that supports their allegations of sexual assault by their father.
The judge wrote that the new evidence that “a little” emphasizes the allegations that the brothers were subjected to sexual abuse does not negate the fact that the husband acted with “pre -blind and trading” when they carried out killings.
“The alleged evidence here is not so convincing that it would have produced reasonable complaints in the minds of at least one jury or a supporter of incomplete self -defense education,” the judge wrote.
An email was sent to Mark Giragos, the lawyer for the brothers, and asked to comment on the judge’s ruling.
A committee of commissioners on August 22 rejected that Layl Mindez had a conditional release for a period of three years after a day hearing. Commissioners indicated that the older brother still shows “anti -society personal traits such as deception and reduce the rules that lie under this positive surface.”
Eric Menendez, who is being held in the same prison in San Diego, was refused to make a conditional release a day before the commissioners decided that his misconduct in prison made him still a threat to public safety.
The brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 to shoot their father, Jose Menendes, and the mother, Kitty Mainndes, at their palace Beverly Hills almost 36 years ago on August 20, 1989. One lawyer said to the defense that the brothers had played self -defense qualifications after years of sexual assault by their sexual father.
The judge reduced their rulings in May, and they were immediately eligible for a conditional release. Conditional release listening sessions were the closest to winning freedom since their convictions almost 30 years ago.
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