Erik and Lyle Menendez and their authorized staff are making a full courtroom 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 data 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 a long time 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 nicely.
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 undertaking contains murals of San Diego landmarks … with Erik serving because the lead painter. Their imaginative and prescient additionally requires outside school rooms, coaching areas for service canine and assembly areas for rehab teams.
Geragos has filed authorized docs supporting his case, which features a letter from a number of dozen family of Jose and Kitty Menendez … a letter supporting Erik and Lyle’s launch.
TMZ obtained the victims’ letter, through which Jose and Kitty’s relations say it will 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 instructed a number of could testify.
Our sources say the Menendez brothers won’t be within the courtroom, however they’ll take part within the proceedings just about from jail.
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As we instructed you, Erik and Lyle have a couple of pathways to freedom. Geragos will ask the decide to vary their convictions from homicide to manslaughter, which might free them instantly based mostly on most time served.
The decide might additionally resentence them and put their freedom within the palms of the parole board … however that might 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 …
