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Lois Beckett in Los Angeles

Judge delays hearing on Menendez brothers’ bid to be released early

two men in shirts and ties in a courtroom
Lyle and Erik Menendez during a hearing in 1990, Photograph: Nick Ut/AP

A resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Mendendez, the brothers convicted of murdering their parents in their Beverly Hills home more than 30 years ago, has been pushed back until January, in part to allow Los Angeles’s newly-elected district attorney to weigh in on the case.

The brothers, who were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison without parole, were due to appear before a judge for the first time in decades, but technical problems prevented them from appearing virtually from a San Diego prison.

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