A lot has changed in the outside world since Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 1996. The Menendez Brothers were arrested in 1990 and found guilty six years later of murdering their allegedly abusive parents,

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.

Erik and Lyle Menendez's infamous case was back in front of a judge Monday. Their next hearing, which is regarding the brothers' resentencing recommendation, was pushed back from Dec. 11 to Jan. 30 and Jan.

During Monday’s proceeding, defense attorney Mark Geragos asked the judge to resentence the brothers on a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, Fox 11 reported. The older sisters of the brothers’ late parents, Kitty and José Menendez, also testified.

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.

Will Menendez brothers go free? A judge will soon make a decision on whether to hand down a new sentence in their case.

Menendez brothers’ aunts beg for their release as judge delays resentencing hearing - Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of murdering Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life in pri