A judge has cleared the way for a resentencing hearing for Erik and Lyle Menendez, rejecting the DA’s latest bid to halt the proceedings.

The latest showdown between Erik and Lyle Menendez and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has come down a pivotal notch. In a surprising move Friday morning during a hearing in the Van Nuys,

Jose Menendez and his wife Kitty Menendez, the parents of Erik and Lyle Menendez, were shot and killed in their Beverly Hills mansion in August 1989. In July 1996, the Menendez brothers were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.