The resentencing hearing is one possible avenue for freedom the brothers are pursuing, three decades after their imprisonment for the murder of their parents.

A long-awaited resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez ground to a halt Thursday just hours after attorneys arrived at the courthouse in Van Nuys, partly over a risk assessment report on the brothers that was was not intended for this week's court proceeding.

The proceedings were pushed back for three weeks over the issue of whether a key report on Erik and Lyle Menendez was admissible.