’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 advantage of being well-known and having white privilege … in addition to the help of one of the vital recognizable faces on this planet — Kim Kardashian!

And for this reason, the juror tells TMZ, Erik and Lyle Menendez may 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 demise 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 attractive.”

In recent times, the siblings have made a robust push to get their sentences overturned based mostly on a variety of arguments — together with new proof of alleged sexual abuse by their mother and father — and now it appears they’re creeping nearer to freedom.

They usually have the backing of Kim Ok, who the juror believes would not actually care about different, lesser-known inmates … even though Kim has proven help up to now for non-famous criminals.

Kim argues the trial and sentencing “were more befitting a serial killer than two individuals who endured years of sexual abuse by the very people they loved 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 “element of the crime” they thought of once they had been in deliberations.

The juror notes … “Some jurors were mixed regarding the sexual abuse argument, but we didn’t need to agree on the sexual abuse in order to agree on first-degree murder.”

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 obtained pushed … the decide will deal with the admissibility of the parole board’s danger evaluation report on the brothers. Their subsequent listening to is scheduled for Could 9.