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.

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 is set to decide Monday whether new sexual-abuse evidence is enough to prompt re-examining the convictions of the Menendez brothers in the 1989 shooting deaths of their parents.

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

Incoming Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman will take over the case in December. Ryan Kobayashi, who flew to Los Angeles looking for his daughter, Hannah, after she was reported missing, 'tragically took his own life,

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.