Menendez brother rushed to hospital as lawyer calls for release

The lawyer for one of the Menendez brothers has called for the immediate release of the parent killer due to a “serious condition”.

Erik Menendez has been hospitalised with kidney stones, according to his lawyer – who called for the release of the famed parent killer ahead of his August parole hearing.

“It’s a serious condition,” his lawyer Mark Geragos told TMZ of his 54-year-old client’s diagnosis.

Lyle and Erik Menendez during their trial. Picture: AFP

“I just think he should be parole furloughed, I think is the proper term, and he could be medically furloughed in advance of the hearing so that he can work with the parole lawyer and get up to speed and be ready and do it and give it his best shot. I think that it’s the only fair and equitable thing to do,” the lawyer told the outlet.

Erik Menendez has been taken to hospital. Picture: AP

The brothers were jailed for life for the murder of their parents.

Erik and his brother, Lyle Menendez, have a parole hearing on August 21 following a months-long delay.

The brothers were resentenced in May to 50 years to life in prison.

The Menendez brothers were originally sentenced to life without parole in 1989 for the murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion.

Having already served 35 years behind bars, the two were automatically eligible to pursue parole under California’s youthful offender law.

At the time of the murders, Erik was just 18 years old and Lyle was 21.

The brothers insisted that intruders had broken into their family’s Beverly Hills home and killed their parents.

They later confessed to the killings, but insisted that they’d done it to stop their father’s cycle of sexual abuse.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that the brothers’ claims were false and purported that they were motivated by financial gain.

In the years since their imprisonment, Erik and Lyle both expressed remorse even as they garnered support from more than 20 family members who have ceaselessly advocated for their release.

The brothers’ case was put back in the limelight after Netflix released a season about them in its hit true crime series Monsters in 2024. Fans quickly rallied around the brothers, calling for their release.

This article was originally published on The New York Post