The hearings will be held on consecutive days, with separate deliberations for each brother. Almost 36 years to the day after he and his brother murdered their parents, Erik Menendez will go before a parole board on Thursday for the first time. His brother, Lyle, will get his chance on Friday.

Starting Thursday, Erik and Lyle Menendez will take turns facing a California parole board that will decide whether the brothers should have a chance at freedom after spending more than three decades behind bars for the 1989 killings of their parents in their Beverly Hills home.