Politics may be delaying the resentencing — and possible release — of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent nearly 35 years in prison for murdering their parents. The previous district attorney recommended they be r-sentenced to allow for parole eligibility,

A Los Angeles judge on Monday delayed the upcoming resentencing hearing of convicted killers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who are seeking their release from a California prison where they are serving life without parole for the shotgun murders of their parents in the family's opulent Beverly Hills home 35 years ago.

A California judge has delayed the highly anticipated resentencing hearing for Erik and Joseph "Lyle" Menendez, brothers who killed parents in 1989.

At a status hearing in Los Angeles on Monday, the resentencing trial which could grant freedom for Erik and Lyle Menendez was pushed back from the original date of Dec. 11 to Jan. 30, 2025.

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.

Meanwhile, a select few members of the public got to sit in on a status conference on the case in Van Nuys on Monday.

The judge rescheduled the hearing for Jan. 30 but still decided to hear the testimony of two Menendez relatives who support the release of the brothers, now 56 and 53. The brother

The high-profile murder trial of the Menendez brothers has several moving parts, and one of the biggest decision-makers will be the incoming Los Angeles county district attorney, Nathan Hochman, who was a factor in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic’s decision on Monday to delay the resentencing hearing.

Erik and Lyle Menendez are expected appear in court Monday when a status conference is scheduled for the brothers who have been behind bars for 30 years in the shooting deaths of their parents at the family's Beverly Hills mansion.