Los Angeles (AP) – Eric Menandage Was deprived of parole On Thursday by a panel of California Commissioners.
During his hearing, he offered his most detailed account as to how he was raised and why he made options chosen at the time of killing his parents and during his decades in jail.
He and his brother Lyal were sentenced to life in jail in 1996 For shooting Jose and Kitty Menandez in 1989 at their Beverly Hills Haveli.
The State Reforms Department chose a single reporter to watch the videoconge and share the details with the rest of the press.
Here is a look at Eric’s comments:
His upbringing
“I was not raised with a moral foundation,” he said.
“I was raised in an abstract way to lying, to cheat, to steal, to steal in emotion. When I was playing tennis, my father will ensure that I cheated at a certain time if he told me even if he told me. The idea that I do not overcome a right and wrong because it is not a moral bound that was not making me as a teenager.”
Relationship with your father
Menandage has said that he was sexually abused by his father over the years. He told the commissioners: “I imagined my father’s not being alive.”
The prosecutors asked why Menandez chose the family to kill his father instead of leaving home, as he was already 18 years old. He said: “In my mind, death meant. There was no idea. I was completely convinced that there was no place that I could go.”
He also talked about his father’s fear: “It is difficult to tell how terrible my father was.”
Murders
The panel of commissioners asked Menandez that he also killed his mother if her father was a drug addict.
Menandage explained that he was not seen any difference between his parents because he came to know that his mother knew about the misconduct: “This was the most destructive moment in my whole life. It changed everything for me. I was not protecting him by telling him.”
On shooting my mother: “I wish God I didn’t do it.”
Dissect
The commissioners focused on several rules violations, Menandez in jail, which included drinking alcohol, associated with a gang and a cellphone.
Why did he choose to use a cellphone on this: “What I found in terms of phone and my relationship with the outside world was much higher than the results of me being caught with the phone.”
On the intake of intoxicants: “If I can numb my sadness with alcohol, I was going to do this … I must have taken other medicines to numb that pain … I wanted to reduce that sadness within me.”
Change his life
Menandez decided to become Sobber in 2013 and found confidence, he said: “Since 2013 I was living for a different purpose. My aim in life was to become a good person … I asked myself, ‘Who do I want to be when I die?’ I believe that when I die, I am going to face a separate parole board. “
Why was he deprived of parole
A panel of two parole commissioners said that Menandez was unsuitable for release. He said that his actions in the jail, which involve a cellphone associated with a prison gang and violation of rules, showed that he was a risk for public safety.
Commissioner Robert Barton said: “Anyone can pose a risk for public safety in many ways, with many types of criminal behavior in which you were guilty in jail.”
Menandage may again come before the parole board in three years. Barton encouraged him to change his behavior.
“You have two options,” he said. “There is a mercy party on one … and then you become a self-fulfilling prediction, perhaps not being given next time. Or you can take what you discuss with heart.”
Jamie Ding, Associated Press