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 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.