Four things we learned from Eric Menandez’s parole hearing

The long parole hearing of Eric Menandez in California on Thursday included several insights in their time behind bars – some of which refused their request to release the board’s decision.

Along with his brother Lyal, Eric has spent decades behind bars for the gun killings of his rich parents in 1989, which was also discussed in the hearing. The brothers claimed self -defense, and pushed for their freedom for a long time.

Lyle has his own hearing on Friday. There is something here that we have learned about the murders and the time of Eric in the jail based on Thursday’s hearing, in which he almost participated.

Parole Commissioner, Robert Barton, said that the main cause of his refusal was not themselves, but was the behavior of Menandez in jail.

Barton rejected any perception that Menandez was a “model prisoner”, although he said he was “receiving insight”. There was a discussion of a gang-associated time, quarrels, drug use and even a tax-fraud scam of menndez.

Menandez earned Barton’s sensor over the occupation of prohibited materials – especially illegal use of a mobile phone.

“What did I find in terms of phone and my relationship with the outside world was much greater than the results of me being caught with the phone,” Menandez explained. But he said that he later rethinked this approach.

Menandage, who was 18 at the time of crime, was asked why he and brother shot their parents, instead of leaving the house.

He and his brother have long claimed that the murders were a matter of self -defense, because his father was sexually abusing him.

“When I look back at the person, I was then and what I believed about the world and my parents was unimaginable,” Menandez replied. “Flee means death.”

Asked why he killed his father along with his mother, Manandez said that he knew about the abuse after knowing “he saw him as a person”.

Along with mobile phones, other contraband items that were told to Menandage included candles, materials for alcohol making and art materials.

The art supply was used to decorate their cell.

Commenting on smuggling goods, Barton stated that “institutional misconduct showed lack of self-awareness”.

Accepting the influence of his crimes on his relatives, Menandage told the hearing: “I just want my family to understand that I am so unthinkable for what I have done.”

Eighteen people, most of whom are relatives, spoke during the hearing in support of their release.

One of them, the brother of the brothers Teresita Menandage-Bralt said that he forgives the pair to kill his brother. Stating that he had late-stage cancer, he asked for “wrapping my arms” in his house to welcome Eric, before he was too late.

Barton accepted the support, but said to Menandez: “Two things can be true. They can love and forgive you, and you can still be found inappropriate for parole.”