Erik and Lyle Menendez and their authorized crew are making a full court docket press for freedom at subsequent month’s listening to … and we have discovered their star witnesses are individuals 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 … and so they all work for the California Division of Corrections.
The witnesses are two correctional officers, one training 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 effectively.
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 Area, in 2018 … and the mission contains murals of San Diego landmarks … with Erik serving because the lead painter. Their imaginative and prescient additionally requires out of doors 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 family members of Jose and Kitty Menendez … a letter supporting Erik and Lyle’s launch.
TMZ obtained the victims’ letter, during which Jose and Kitty’s relations say it could assist their therapeutic course of to see Erik and Lyle freed. It is attention-grabbing … the relations are thought-about victims, since they’re associated to Kitty and Jose, and we’re informed a number of might testify.
Our sources say the Menendez brothers won’t be within the courtroom, however they may take part within the proceedings nearly from jail.
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As we informed you, Erik and Lyle have a couple of pathways to freedom. Geragos will ask the choose to alter their convictions from homicide to manslaughter, which might free them instantly primarily based on most time served.
The choose might additionally resentence them and put their freedom within the fingers 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 …
