Erik and Lyle Menendez and their licensed employees are making a full courtroom press for freedom at subsequent month’s listening to … and we have now found their star witnesses are people contained within the jail.
Sources with direct knowledge inform TMZ … the Menendez Brothers lawyer, Mark Geragos, will title 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, nevertheless 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 technique, dubbed Inexperienced Space, in 2018 … and the endeavor accommodates murals of San Diego landmarks … with Erik serving as a result of the lead painter. Their imaginative and prescient moreover requires outdoors faculty rooms, teaching areas for service canine and meeting areas for rehab groups.
Geragos has filed licensed docs supporting his case, which encompasses a letter from a lot of dozen household of Jose and Kitty Menendez … a letter supporting Erik and Lyle’s launch.
TMZ obtained the victims’ letter, by which Jose and Kitty’s relations say it would 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 lot of may testify.
Our sources say the Menendez brothers gained’t be inside the courtroom, nevertheless they’ll participate inside 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 resolve to fluctuate their convictions from murder to manslaughter, which could free them immediately based mostly totally on most time served.
The resolve may moreover resentence them and put their freedom inside the palms of the parole board … nevertheless that may take 6 months and even longer.
California Governor Gavin Newsom may moreover step in at any stage and commute Erik and Lyle’s sentences … and Geragos submitted paperwork asking for clemency.
Hold tuned …
