Erik Menendez is in hospital for a medical condition. His attorney seeks his release

By JAIMIE DING LOS ANGELES AP An attorney is seeking Erik Menendez s release from prison because of a health condition after he was taken to a hospital Related Articles US Olympic and Paralympic officers bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women s sports million above-ground pools recalled amid drowning deaths of kids Trump wants to hire new ICE agents Is that goal doable Immigration crackdown could stymie efforts to fight bird flu outbreak experts fear Zelenskyy renews offer to meet with Putin as executives say Russian attacks kill a child in Ukraine The -year-old has been serving a life without parole sentence along with his brother Lyle Menendez after being convicted of murdering their parents in their Beverly Hills California home in A judge just now resentenced the brothers to years to life making them directly eligible for parole They will appear in front of the state parole board Aug and The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation authenticated Erik Menendez was taken to an outside medicinal facility Friday and remained there Tuesday in fair condition His lawyer Mark Geragos stated TMZ that Menendez was having a serious anatomical condition and should receive a prison furlough something the governor granted specific inmates during the COVID- pandemic Geragos did not elaborate on the condition but he explained releasing Menendez was the only fair and equitable thing to do so he had time to prepare for his parole hearing properly Geragos office verified his comments to TMZ but did not make him available for an interview California Gov Gavin Newsom s office and a representative for the family declined to comment A judge last week ordered Los Angeles prosecutors to explain why Erik and Lyle Menendez s murder convictions should not be reexamined in light of new evidence supporting their proposes of sexual abuse by their father While defense attorneys at the time argued the brothers acted out of self-defense after years of sexual abuse by their father prosecutors revealed the brothers killed their parents for a multimillion-dollar inheritance The order was in response to a habeas corpus petition filed by the Menendez brothers in May seeking a review of their convictions in a process separate from their resentencing bid