Eugene Gligor has carried a relaxed and studious bearing since being locked up for a case that took police two decades to solve. He helps teach jailhouse yoga, leads “trauma talks” and has completed 106 online classes, including two on Buddhism.

On Thursday, the 45-year-old returns to a courtroom in Montgomery County, Maryland, to learn his punishment for a crime he now admits he committed, but claims he doesn’t fully remember: the brutal murder in 2001 of his ex-girlfriend’s mother, Leslie Preer.

Prosecutors are seeking the maximum sentence, 30 years, in new court filings that reveal details of the “unrelenting attack” Gligor unleashed inside Preer’s home just north of Washington in Chevy Chase.

Gligor slammed Preer’s head seven times onto the foyer floor, beat her repeatedly and stran

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