Erik and Lyle Menendez and their approved workers are making a full courtroom press for freedom at subsequent month’s listening to … and we’ve found their star witnesses are people contained within the jail.
Sources with direct information inform TMZ … the Menendez Brothers lawyer, Mark Geragos, will identify six key witnesses to the stand at their Dec. 11 resentencing listening to … and they also all work for the California Division of Corrections.
The witnesses are two correctional officers, one coaching officer, a jail guard, a correctional lieutenant and one different employee from the Dept. of Corrections … all of whom have crossed paths with Erik and Lyle all through their three-plus a very long time behind bars.
Our sources say the jail staffers will testify Erik and Lyle have been rehabilitated and have been model prisoners who not solely labored on themselves, nonetheless helped totally different inmates improve their lives as properly.
The witnesses, amongst totally different points, will highlight a beautification program they helmed for the jail yard on the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility exterior San Diego, CA.
Lyle launched this method, dubbed Inexperienced Space, in 2018 … and the endeavor comprises murals of San Diego landmarks … with Erik serving as a result of the lead painter. Their imaginative and prescient moreover requires outdoors college rooms, teaching areas for service canine and meeting areas for rehab groups.
Geragos has filed approved docs supporting his case, which incorporates a letter from a variety of dozen household of Jose and Kitty Menendez … a letter supporting Erik and Lyle’s launch.
TMZ obtained the victims’ letter, by means of which Jose and Kitty’s relations say it should help their therapeutic course of to see Erik and Lyle freed. It’s attention-grabbing … the relations are thought-about victims, since they’re related to Kitty and Jose, and we’re instructed a variety of might testify.
Our sources say the Menendez brothers gained’t be throughout the courtroom, nonetheless they’ll participate throughout the proceedings nearly from jail.
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As we instructed you, Erik and Lyle have a few pathways to freedom. Geragos will ask the determine to range their convictions from murder to manslaughter, which could free them immediately primarily based totally on most time served.
The determine would possibly moreover resentence them and put their freedom throughout the palms of the parole board … nonetheless that may take 6 months and even longer.
California Governor Gavin Newsom would possibly moreover step in at any degree and commute Erik and Lyle’s sentences … and Geragos submitted paperwork asking for clemency.
Maintain tuned …
