Convicted double assassin Erik Menendez, the youthful of the Menendez brothers, dished on the “bullying and trauma” he is seen over practically three many years in California’s jail system in a uncommon interview on the “2 Indignant Males Podcast.”
“Jail was onerous for me,” Menendez informed the hosts, TMZ’s Harvey Levin and his personal lawyer, Mark Geragos, talking of his incarceration in previous tense. “I confronted numerous bullying and trauma – it was a harmful atmosphere.”
Menendez and his brother, Joseph “Lyle” Mendnez, are each being held in California’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility on life sentences with out the potential for parole, however beneath a brand new Golden State regulation, they may see their sentences diminished at a listening to subsequent month and finally obtain freedom.
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Lyle Menendez, left, and his brother Erik pictured of their most up-to-date CDCR mugshots, taken on Oct. 10, 2024. (California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
“I used to be picked on, bullied, violently, and it was traumatic,” he mentioned, noting that such remedy is widespread for a lot of inmates who aren’t concerned with jail gangs.
“Jail will be onerous, and there is numerous struggling in jail,” he mentioned.
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Menendez, who alongside his brother was convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of their mother and father, has been praised for his good habits over the previous three many years behind bars. He mentioned he did his finest to keep away from combating again or participating with aggressive prisoners.
“I used to be separated from Lyle, and I bear in mind the day that I used to be informed Lyle simply bought assaulted and bought his jaw damaged…I am considering he is over there, I am going via this over right here, and not less than we might defend one another, possibly, if we have been collectively. We weren’t even allowed to be collectively.”
An undated picture of the Menendez household because it seems on display screen throughout a panel at CrimeCon 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday, June 2, 2024. The brothers Lyle and Erik have been convicted of fatally taking pictures each of their mother and father in 1989. (Michael Ruiz/Fox Information Digital)
The brothers, who have been sentenced to life with out parole in 1996, have been lastly transferred to the identical facility in 2018.
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Circumstances have improved over time, he added.
“I imagine that [the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation] is doing their finest, and I need to work with them. I do know Lyle is, at actually altering that tradition at present,” he mentioned. “However 25 years in the past, it was an excellent darker, extra harmful place.”
Menendez brothers, Erik, left, and Lyle on the steps of their Beverly Hills house in November 1989. (Ronald L. Soble/Los Angeles Instances)
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Lyle Menendez, in the identical podcast episode, mentioned his involvement in a prison-based inexperienced area venture that he mentioned he would nonetheless return to work on if granted launch.
They exhausted all potential appeals in 2005, Geragos has mentioned beforehand, and till a brand new California regulation went into impact that they had no hope of ever attaining freedom, but they continued to indicate good habits and preserve out of hassle behind bars.
The brothers are scheduled for resentencing hearings on March 20 and 21 in Los Angeles. The hearings have been postponed a number of instances, first after the previous Los Angeles District Lawyer pushing for his or her launch misplaced his re-election marketing campaign, and once more after wildfires tore via LA.
“My brother and I are cautiously hopeful,” Lyle Menendez informed Levin close to the tip of the episode. “We’re in prayer with our household, and we’re hopeful, and we’re simply attempting to not go slightly loopy within the interim.”
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Erik Menendez (C) and his brother Lyle (L) are pictured on Aug. 12, 1991 in Beverly Hills. They have been convicted of killing their mother and father, Jose and Mary Louise Menendez of Beverly Hills, Calif. (MIKE NELSON/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The brothers have a separate habeas petition making its means via the courts that might additionally consequence of their freedom, arguing that new proof bolsters their self-defense declare.
On Aug. 20, 1989, they snuck up behind their mother and father, Jose Menendez and Mary “Kitty” Menendez, from behind with shotguns and killed them each of their Beverly Hills lounge. The brothers have argued that they did it in self-defense, claiming their father was going to kill them after they threatened to reveal him as a toddler molester.
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Whereas about two dozen kinfolk have forgiven them and are publicly supporting their launch, their mom’s brother is vehemently opposed and beforehand informed Fox Information Digital via his attorneys that he believes the motive was greed.
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After killing their mother and father, the brothers went on a $700,000 spending spree that included luxurious vehicles, Rolex watches and even a restaurant.
