Kim Kardashian brought a strange furry bag with her when she attended her son Saint’s basketball game this week.
The 43-year-old shares her four children (daughters North, 11, and Chicago, six, and sons Saint, eight, and Psalm, five) with her third ex-husband, Kanye West.
She is a frequent presence at her oldest son’s basketball games, affectionately showing her support for his extracurricular hobby.
During her last outing, she carried a large, bulky, eye-catching black bag covered in what looked like faux fur.
Her California casual outfit included a tight-fitting tank top that emphasized her ample assets and allowed her to show off her chiseled midriff.
Kim Kardashian brought a strange furry bag with her when she attended her son Saint’s basketball game this week.
Kim’s latest appearance comes after he published a controversial op-ed arguing that the Menendez brothers should be freed.
Lyle and Erik Menendez have been in prison for more than three decades for murdering their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.
Their trials were televised and attracted a feverish media frenzy – the first court cases that became the kind of television sensation later personified by OJ Simpson.
Kim’s family first entered the spotlight when her late father, Robert Kardashian, was part of the legal “dream team” that helped secure OJ’s acquittal for double murder.
Now Kim, an aspiring lawyer who passed the California practice exam on her fourth attempt in December 2021, has become a strong advocate for prison reform.
In an op-ed published Thursday, Kim argued that the Menendez brothers should be released since their “only way out of prison now is death.”
His intervention came the same day that Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon announced that the Menendez brothers had asked a court to overturn their conviction.
The district attorney’s office is now examining evidence that was deemed inadmissible in the trial that resulted in the brothers’ imprisonment.
She is a frequent presence at her oldest son’s basketball games, affectionately showing her support for his extracurricular hobby.
Kim appears with Saint in an Instagram photo she shared last month from her trip to Spain, during which she called herself a ‘Madrid soccer mom.’
The office is specifically looking into allegations made by former boy band singer Roy Rosselló, who claimed last year that José, a music executive, sexually abused him when he was a teenager in the 1980s.
The Menendez brothers have maintained that their father sexually abused them, and it has further been alleged that crucial evidence related to the allegations was not allowed in the trial that led to their conviction in 1996.
His case has drawn new public scrutiny since the premiere last month of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle And Erik Menendez Story.
Kim, who acted for Ryan on his hit show American Horror Story, now argues that Lyle and Erik have been misinterpreted.
He argued that people “are all products of our experiences” and that “this story is much more complex than it appears on the surface.”
Kim noted that “both brothers said they had been sexually, physically and emotionally abused for years by their parents,” in the op-ed. NBC News.
In the past, Kim has secured the release of several convicts, starting with Alice Marie Johnson, who was convicted of eight criminal charges in 1996 for her work with a cocaine trafficking ring in Memphis.
Kim also visited the Trump White House to promote the FIRST STEP Act, a prison reform law that resulted in the early release of tens of thousands of felons.
Kim’s latest appearance comes after he published a controversial op-ed arguing that the Menendez brothers, photographed at trial in 1994, should be freed.
Lyle was 21 and Erik was 18 when their parents, Jose and Kitty, were killed, setting off a rollercoaster of legal drama that resulted in their 1996 murder conviction.
The Menendez brothers presented the ‘abuse excuse’, alleging that their parents sexually abused and physically assaulted them for years.
Along with the brothers themselves, one of the most notorious figures to emerge from the trial was their ruthless attorney Leslie Abramson.
In the end, the Menéndez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; Since then, Lyle has been married twice and Erik once.
In his op-ed, Kim characterized the brothers as two victims of abuse who were targeted by the legal system and smeared by the media.
‘His first trial was held before two separate juries, one for each brother. “His allegations of abuse formed the basis of his defense, and members of his family testified on his behalf,” Kim wrote.
“After hearing this evidence, more than half of the 24 jurors voted not guilty on the murder charges, resulting in hopelessly deadlocked juries and mistrials, which was widely seen as a blow to the District Attorney’s Office. of Los Angeles.”
Kim stated that by the time of the second trial, the Menendez case had been overshadowed by the OJ Simpson case in the public’s mind.
Lyle (left) and Erik (right) Menendez have been in prison for more than three decades for murdering their parents José and Kitty in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989; in the photo 1990
Since less attention is now paid to the Menendez brothers, the rules were changed at their expense for their second trial, Kim argued.
“This time, the judge had changed the rules: both brothers were tried together before a single jury, much of the abuse evidence was deemed inadmissible, and involuntary manslaughter was no longer an option,” Kim wrote.
“Some witnesses in the first trial were prohibited from testifying about the alleged abuse, depriving jurors of crucial evidence,” he added.
“The prosecutor, having successfully argued to exclude abuse testimony, mocked the brothers’ defense during their closing arguments for not presenting any evidence of abuse.”
He also noted that “the case became entertainment for the nation” as the brothers’ “suffering and stories of abuse became parodies on Saturday Night Live” and the “media turned the brothers into monsters and in a sensational visual appeal”.
Kim criticized the way Lyle and Erik were portrayed as “two rich, arrogant kids from Beverly Hills who killed their parents out of greed”, arguing that the portrayal left “no room for empathy, let alone sympathy” in public perception of them.