As a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday ruled that the resentencing request for the Erik and Lyle Menendez can go forward, the Beverly Hills brothers are pursuing legal avenues that could lead to reduced sentence and possibly even a release from prison after 35 years behind bars.

Los Angeles's district attorney asked a judge to throw out a bid to have brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez resentenced. Erik and Lyle were sentenced to life in prison. The DA accuses the brothers of lying for decades about their claims of self-defense during the shotgun murders of their parents,

A Los Angeles judge on Friday ruled that a resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez may go forward, dealing a setback to the prosecutor who opposed any leniency for the brothers serving a life term for the shotgun murder of their parents in 1989.