Cooper Koch reveals the response of Erik Menendez’s rescheduling along with delays

Cooper Koch reveal how Erik Menéndez Responded to him and a brother Lyle Menéndez be re -entered into 50 years live.

“I’m so grateful that happened,” Koch, 28, who played Erik on Ryan MurphyMinic Monsterstell Diversity On Tuesday, May 20. “As is Erik (Menéndez), I spoke to him yesterday and it’s so exciting.”

Koch said that “the most inspirational thing” he heard from Erik, 54, is about his plans after possibly released Following a decision by the Parole Board

“He’s going to be an advocate for other people with a lwop, which is life without parole,” Koch explained about Erik’s plans to make “a lot of change” in the prison system. “His life is going to surround making a change in the prison system, and I think that’s so beautiful.”

According to Koch, Erik has hope, if he and Lyle, 57, are released, in “10 years, people look back and they say, ‘We really made the right decision. Thank God we leave them out.”

Erik and Lyle were arrested in 1990 on two counts of first degree murder after her parents, Kitty and José Menéndez, were shot at home. Later, the siblings admitted that they were killing their parents following years of alleged physical, emotional and sexual abuse. They were eventually found guilty and sentenced to life without parole in 1996 after two high profile trials.

While they were previously seeks to appeal against the decision Recent television projects have been rejected as Monsters and The Menéndez brothers Erik and Lyle seem to have another chance for freedom. (In spite of Erik expressing frustration with details included in Murphy’s MonstersErik and Koch developed friendship.)

“The reason he has been with me for so long is because I was auditioned to play seven years ago for the Law & Order series and for the lifetime film,” Koch told GQ Australia In December 2024, referring to a true crime and menendez: Blood Brothers.

Koch nearly landed the role both times. “I reached the last rounds in both and eventually I didn’t get it. But I felt I had to play this part,” he remembered. “I got the audition (for monsters) and watched the trial videos for the first time.”

In October 2024, there is a Los Angeles area attorney that is now overcome George Gascón He recommended that a judge should reduce Erik and Lyle’s sentence to 50 years. The request Have become more complex When Gascón lost his proposal for a second choice a month later. Nathan Hochman He took over and was not so supportive of Erik and Lyle’s legal efforts to be released from prison.

During a hearing earlier this month, the brothers were re -appointed to 50 years live, which now makes them eligible for parole under the law of California youth offenders since committing their crime under 26 years of age. The State Parole Board must decide whether to release them from prison.

A hearing was initially set for June 13 but now rescheduled To August 21 and 22, the California Correction and Rehabilitation Department announced on Monday, May 19, according to ABC NEWS.

There is a chance that the Governor of California Gavin Newsom He could try to give the brothers a clemency but has expressed plans to hold back on a decision until after the final hearing. Newsom, 57, asked the Parole Board to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment investigation Ice could Erik and Lyle posed a risk to public safety if they were released.