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00:00And there is breaking news in one of the most infamous murder cases in the last several

00:13decades. Today Lyle Menendez goes before the California parole board to make his case for

00:19freedom. It was just yesterday though parole commissioners denied the same request essentially

00:24for release for his brother, from his brother Eric Menendez. Both were convicted for the

00:291989 murders of their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion. After a years long battle the

00:35board rejected Eric's bid for freedom saying that he has not been a model prisoner and also

00:41citing several violations while behind bars. The Menendez brothers argued that the killings were

00:47committed in self-defense. They have long said that alleging years of abuse by their father and

00:52saying that their mother knew about it but turned a blind eye. But the LA County District Attorney says

00:57that the two lied about their motive and have not accepted responsibility for their actions.

01:04If and when the Menendez brothers finally come clean and say that those lies that they've been

01:10been telling for 35 years are just that, they're lies, then at that point we believe they'll be

01:17qualified for parole. Until that happens we believe they're not.

01:21Join us now seeing as Jean Casares on all of this. Let's start with yesterday and this big decision

01:27overnight. How did the parole board, how did they explain how they came to this decision?

01:31So much to this. First of all the murders focused in on the burglaries that Eric had done the year

01:36before and then also the murders. Saying that you were of age. Domestic abuse in your household,

01:42you could have gone to police. You could have gone to the loving family you have. You could have just

01:46left but you didn't. And there was no imminent risk of your death that night. He point blanks asked him,

01:53did you do this in self-defense? He said no. Eric admitted no. Then the mother. He said killing

02:01your mother was devoid of any human compassion. She was a victim in your home also. Next focused on

02:09continued criminal behavior in the prison. First of all cell phone, illicit cell phones. Now he said

02:17people on the outside are not going to understand this but to have a cell phone from the outside and

02:22to hide it and to have other members of the of the inmate community hide them for you while you're

02:29teaching them during the day about reunification in society, rehabilitation of criminals and you are

02:35having them hide your cell phones. That's the height of hypocrisy. Also during his time in prison he

02:41participated in a tax fraud scheme with a prison gang and you willingly joined that. You weren't

02:48pushed to do that. There were also some issues of drugs but then he got into a very interesting point.

02:55He said there are people on the outside who support you so much in getting released. We don't know if

03:01those are the celebrities that have come out but he did say it makes you wonder if you lied to them

03:08and there were letters from prison correctional facility members that said you were the model

03:14prisoner and we're concerned about those letters. So that is what they said to Eric. What is, does that

03:22have bearing on Lyle's request and his appearance now before the parole board today? In part because

03:28the murders, the burglaries, very similar. Let's look at the conduct in prison. Lyle just last year had an

03:36illicit cell phone that he was using. Several years before that there was misuse of state phones. There was

03:43contraband that was taken into the prison. They've given to him so the prison officials didn't know but there

03:50are not as many violations inside of prison as with Eric. So it's a different set of individuals,

03:58different commissioners we believe today will be looking at it. But it was 10 hours yesterday. Yeah,

04:03I was reading that normally it's just maybe a couple hours of these hearings last. 10 hours yesterday.

04:09Four times as many as usual. Let's see what happens today. Thank you so much Jean. John. All right, more breaking news.