Erik and Lyle Menendez and their authorized workforce are making a full courtroom press for freedom at subsequent month’s listening to … and we have realized their star witnesses are folks contained in the jail.
Sources with direct information inform TMZ … the Menendez Brothers lawyer, Mark Geragos, will name six key witnesses to the stand at their Dec. 11 resentencing listening to … they usually all work for the California Division of Corrections.
The witnesses are two correctional officers, one schooling officer, a jail guard, a correctional lieutenant and one other worker from the Dept. of Corrections … all of whom have crossed paths with Erik and Lyle throughout their three-plus many years behind bars.
Our sources say the jail staffers will testify Erik and Lyle have been rehabilitated and have been mannequin prisoners who not solely labored on themselves, however helped different inmates enhance their lives as properly.
The witnesses, amongst different issues, will spotlight a beautification program they helmed for the jail yard on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility exterior San Diego, CA.
Lyle launched this system, dubbed Inexperienced House, in 2018 … and the challenge consists of murals of San Diego landmarks … with Erik serving because the lead painter. Their imaginative and prescient additionally requires outside lecture rooms, coaching areas for service canines and assembly areas for rehab teams.
Geragos has filed authorized docs supporting his case, which features a letter from a number of dozen kinfolk of Jose and Kitty Menendez … a letter supporting Erik and Lyle’s launch.
TMZ obtained the victims’ letter, through which Jose and Kitty’s members of the family say it might assist their therapeutic course of to see Erik and Lyle freed. It is fascinating … the members of the family are thought of victims, since they’re associated to Kitty and Jose, and we’re instructed a number of could testify.
Our sources say the Menendez brothers is not going to be within the courtroom, however they may take part within the proceedings nearly from jail.
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As we instructed you, Erik and Lyle have a number of pathways to freedom. Geragos will ask the decide to alter their convictions from murder to manslaughter, which might free them instantly primarily based on most time served.
The decide might additionally resentence them and put their freedom within the palms of the parole board … however that would take 6 months and even longer.
California Governor Gavin Newsom might additionally step in at any level and commute Erik and Lyle’s sentences … and Geragos submitted paperwork asking for clemency.
Keep tuned …
