Menendez Parole Denied: 2028 Is the Headline, But Here’s Every Shortcut, Backdoor, and Long Shot They Still Have 🔒🕰️
Menendez Parole Denied: 2028 Is the Headline, But Here’s Every Shortcut, Backdoor, and Long Shot They Still Have 🔒🕰️ Three years sounds like the door slammed shut, right? Not exactly. The Menendez brothers just got hit with a three–year parole denial, but there are loopholes in California’s system that could move that clock faster than you think, plus two entirely separate routes that do not care what the parole board thinks. The double denial came after marathon hearings that stretched late into the evenings and turned into the most consequential freedom bid Lyle and Erik Menendez have had in decades. Commissioners landed on the shortest denial allowed in California, three years, which sets the next default parole-eligibility date in 2028. That headline is everywhere for a reason. It is clean, it is loud, and it is technically true. But if you stop there, you miss the nuance that actually matters, because the same law that lets the board deny for three years also opens t...