A California judge refused to request a new trial for Eric and Lille Mindez, and closed another possible way to freedom for brotherhood who spent contracts in prison for their parents in 1989.
Los Angeles – California judge rejected a request for a new trial Eric and Lil MindezClose another possible path to freedom for brotherhood who spent contracts in prison Their parents were killed in 1989 At Beverly Hills Palace.
The ruling on Monday by the Los Angeles Supreme Court judge, William C Ryan, comes just weeks after the brotherhood Conditional release denied. 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 “somewhat asserting” the allegations that the brothers were subjected to sexual abuse does not negate the fact that the husband acted with “depth and circulation” 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 in support 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.”
Erik Mainndes, who was held in the same prison in San Diego, was the same Conditional release denied A day before the commissioners decided that his poor behavior in prison made him still a threat to public safety.
The brothers were He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 To shoot their father, Jose Menendes, and the mother, Kitty Mindez, at their palace in Beverly Hills, almost 36 years ago on August 20, 1989. While defense lawyers argued that the brothers were self -defense after years of sexual assault by their father, the Brotherhood said that the brothers participated in a multiple incidence of a megal.
judge They lower their sentences In May, they were immediately eligible for conditional release. Conditional release listening sessions were the closest to winning freedom since their convictions almost 30 years ago.