’96 Menendez Trial Juror Says Brothers Profit From White Privilege, and Kim Ok

A juror within the 1996 Menendez brothers’ homicide trial says the shotgun-wielding brothers share the good thing about being well-known and having white privilege … in addition to the help of one of the crucial recognizable faces on the earth — Kim Kardashian!

And this is the reason, the juror tells TMZ, Erik and Lyle Menendez might obtain clemency and in the end get launched from a California jail … after serving many years behind bars for shootings their mother and father, Jose and Kitty, to dying of their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.

The juror, who spoke on the situation of anonymity, tells TMZ … freedom is definitely a risk for the brothers given the truth that Erik and Lyle are “well-known, white-looking, or enticing,” even though they’re Latino.

The brothers had been convicted of first-degree homicide of their second trial — after the primary led to a hung jury — they usually had been sentenced to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole.

Lately, the siblings have made a powerful push to get their sentences overturned primarily based on numerous arguments — together with new proof of alleged sexual abuse by their mother and father — and now it appears they’re creeping nearer to freedom.

Kim argues the trial and sentencing “had been extra befitting a serial killer than two people who endured years of sexual abuse by the very folks they beloved and trusted.”

At trial, the brothers maintained they shotgunned their mother and father due to years of sexual and bodily abuse all through their childhood. However, the juror informed TMZ … the abuse allegations weren’t an “aspect of the crime” they thought-about once they had been in deliberations.

The juror notes … “Some jurors had been combined concerning the sexual abuse argument, however we did not have to agree on the sexual abuse with a view to agree on first-degree homicide.”

The juror says he doesn’t help or oppose the brothers’ potential launch … however wish to see them use their star energy to assist sexual abuse victims or wrongfully convicted folks, in the event that they do get sprung.

Final week, Lyle and Erik’s resentencing listening to acquired pushed … the decide will deal with the admissibility of the parole board’s threat evaluation report on the brothers. Their subsequent listening to is scheduled for Might 9.