Erik Menéndez and Lyle Menéndez's bid for a retrial was rejected less than one month after the brothers were denied parole. According to a Tuesday, September 16, report by The New York Times, the convicted murderers' request was denied by Los Angeles Superior Court's Judge William C. Ryan one day prior. The rejection followed each of the brothers, who were convicted of murdering their parents, José and Kitty Menéndez, in 1989, being denied parole amid two individual August hearings.