Erik Menendez Returns to Jail After Being Hospitalized, Present process Surgical procedure

Erik Menendez has returned to jail after being briefly transferred to a California hospital to obtain therapy for kidney stones.

In an Instagram Tales put up shared on Saturday, Aug. 2, Erik’s stepdaughter, Talia, shared that the 54-year-old was out of the hospital after present process surgical procedure, per TMZ.

“My dad is out of the hospital and again on the jail, making ready for our upcoming parole listening to,” wrote Talia, who’s the daughter of Tammi Saccoman, the lady who married Erik whereas he was in jail in San Diego.

ABC Information beforehand reported that Erik had been transported from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego to a neighborhood hospital to deal with a medical situation. Talia later revealed on social media that he was experiencing “issues with each kidneys having a number of giant stones.”

Erik and brother Lyle Menendez‘s legal professional Mark Geragos instructed TMZ on July 22 that Erik was within the hospital for a few week, including that it was a “critical medical situation.”

Geragos additionally instructed the outlet that Erik needs to be launched from jail instantly after information of his situation emerged.

“Medical privateness legal guidelines prohibit us from offering particulars,” the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation mentioned in an electronic mail to PEOPLE on the time.

The prognosis got here a few month forward of a parole board listening to for Erik and 57-year-old Lyle — who had been each convicted within the notorious 1989 murders of their dad and mom — on Aug. 21 and Aug. 22.

The brothers had been resentenced to 50 years to life in jail on Could 13, making them eligible for parole.

Erik and Lyle had been each incarcerated after killing their dad and mom, José and Kitty Menendez, on Aug. 20, 1989, whereas they had been sitting on the sofa within the TV room of their $5 million Beverly Hills mansion. 

Erik, then 18, and Lyle, then 21, claimed that the murders got here after their father — the chief working officer of RCA Information — sexually abused them for years and their mom, a former pageant queen, ignored the abuse. They’ve maintained that they feared for his or her lives and that José had threatened to kill them in the event that they instructed anybody in regards to the alleged sexual abuse.

In the meantime, prosecutors mentioned the 2 brothers’ motive was greed and cited their lavish spending spree after the murders.

Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom might probably search to grant the brothers clemency and make his determination at any time, although he has mentioned he’ll wait till after their last parole board listening to to resolve.

The politician beforehand requested that the parole board conduct a complete threat evaluation investigation into whether or not the brothers might pose a threat to public security ought to they be launched.

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“The Governor has ordered the Parole Board to conduct a Complete Danger Evaluation of each Erik and Lyle Menendez,” attorneys Geragos and Cliff Gardner wrote in a assertion obtained by PEOPLE in February.

“Together with scores of Jose and Kitty Menendez’s relations who’ve fought for years to see Erik and Lyle have an opportunity to lastly come house, we’re grateful for the Governor’s determination,” the assertion added. 

“The household realizes that the Governor’s motion doesn’t imply he’ll commute the sentences. As an alternative, this preliminary step displays the Governor’s thought-about determination to a minimum of receive the knowledge required to make a good determination as as to if Erik and Lyle, after 35 years in jail, have completed the exhausting work essential to have an opportunity at a life exterior jail. Jose and Kitty’s relations, in addition to Erik and Lyle, can ask for nothing extra,” the attorneys continued.

The Menendez brothers made a digital video look at their listening to in Could and took “full accountability” for the murders, Fox Information reported on the time.