LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lyle Menendez is pleading his case before a parole board Friday, a day after his younger brother Erik was denied parole.

Their separate hearings this week come nearly 30 years after the brothers were convicted of first-degree murder in 1995 for the 1989 killings of their parents. They were sentenced to life in prison without parole in 1996.

But after a Los Angeles judge reduced their sentences to 50 years to life in May, they immediately became eligible for parole under California law because they were under age 26 when they committed their crimes.

Who are the Menendez brothers, and what did they do?

Lyle and Erik Menendez are the sons of Jose and Kitty Menendez. Jose, a Cuban-American business executive who at one time was an executive at RCA Records, moved his fa

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