Erik and Lyle Menendez have lost their bid for a new trial.

A month after the brothers were denied parole at back-to-back suitability hearings where they recounted their 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ruled they do not qualify for a new trial based on claims of new evidence.

In his new 16-page ruling obtained by Rolling Stone , Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge William Ryan rejected the brothers’ habeas petition filed in 2023. Judge Ryan found that the alleged new evidence was not “strong” enough to have changed the outcome of the brothers’ 1996 jury trial, where they were convicted of first-degree murder for killing José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menendez inside the family’s Beverly Hills home.

“The purported new evidence t

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