Erik and Lyle Menendez’s efforts to reduce their life-without-parole prison terms have been in limbo after the ouster earlier this month of Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor, who recommended a new sentence that could clear the way for the brothers’ release.

A judge has delayed until January his decision on whether to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion 35 years ago.

A judge has delayed a scheduled resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez, brothers sentenced to life in prison for murdering their parents in 1989 in California. Judge Michael Jesic said at a Monday status hearing that the resentencing date,