Lyle and Erik Menendez face another setback in their quest for freedom as California legal institutions pump the brakes on their resentencing hearing following the election of new District Attorney-elect Nathan Hochman.

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, with the brothers listening in on the phone during a status hearing regarding their habeas corpus petition, which was filed last year for a review of new evidence not presented at trial.

Erik and Lyle Menendez are set for a Monday court hearing after their lawyers requested a judge review potential new evidence and consider vacating their first-degree murder convictions for the 1989 killings of their parents.

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

A judge on Monday 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, squashing their family’s hope the brothers would be released and home for the holidays.

Family of Lyle and Erik Menendez told a judge Monday they want the men freed from the life sentences they are serving for the shotgun murders of their parents, as

Los Angeles County Deputy DA John Lewin explains the postponement of the Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing, how outgoing DA George Gascón allegedly tried to use the case and what it may mean for their chances of going free.