LOS ANGELES — A judge in Los Angeles rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, closing off another possible path to freedom for the brothers less than a month after they were denied parole.

Judge William C. Ryan of Los Angeles Superior Court denied a petition Monday that lawyers for the brothers had filed in May 2023. In the filing, the lawyers cited two new pieces of evidence that they argued would have changed the outcome of the brothers’ second trial, at which they were convicted of murdering their parents inside their Beverly Hills, California, home in 1989.

The brothers each had parole hearings in August before a state panel, and both were denied parole. They can petition to go before the board again after 18 months. They can also continue to seek clemency from

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