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(NewsNation) — A pistillate who sat connected the assemblage of Erik Menendez's archetypal proceedings tells NewsNation she was "disappointed" but unsurprised helium was denied parole Thursday night.
Erik and Lyle Menendez were some denied parole for 3 years by a sheet of 2 California commissioners, astatine which clip they volition beryllium eligible again.
Hazel Thornton told "Banfield" that the Menendez brothers would person been convicted of manslaughter, not murder, if they had been tried successful 2025.
"It was disappointing, but not surprising," she said of the decision. "I had heard that it was unlikely, that astir radical bash not get approved the archetypal time. So it would person been, you know, astonishing if they had, if helium had been, but I knew that helium was apt not to be.
"I deliberation they are arsenic deserving of parole, and I deliberation it would beryllium unspeakable if 1 of them got it and the different 1 didn't," Thornton added.
"That said, if Lyle did get paroled sooner than Eric, you know, possibly helium could pave the mode for him."
Menendez's sponsor, rapper Anerae "X-Raided" Brown, who spent 18 years successful situation with Erik and Lyle Menendez, told "Banfield" connected Thursday that the determination was a "positive outcome" for Menendez.
