Menendez brothers’ eligible for parole

UPDATE: A judge ruled Tuesday afternoon that the Menendez brothers will receive shorter sentences.

Due to a reduced sentence, the brothers are now eligible for parole.

VAN NUYS, Calif. (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - The two-day resentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez is underway.

The Menendez brothers have served more than 30 years of a life prison sentence for the August 1989 murders of their parents in Beverly Hills.

Their attorney, Mark Geragos argues they have been rehabilitated, and are deserving of a new sentence.

"I think we're in a good place, so I'm confident, and I'm looking forward to a productive hearing," Geragos expressed.

The L.A. County District Attorney's Office will present the case against resentencing, arguing the Menendez brothers have not taken full responsibility for their crimes.

"Five different courts evaluating the Menendez conviction and evaluating the Menendez sentence have turned those appeals down. But California has this additional statute called resentencing, and the idea was that resentencing with is not designed to let every murderer who's had their convictions affirmed by five different courts of appeals to let them out.

We have said, with respect to resentencing, that the our position is not no or it's not never, it's not yet, and the reason we said that is that the Menendez brothers have failed to come clean with the full extent of their criminal conduct, their cover up, their lies and their deceit over the past 30 years."

Nathan Hochman, L.A. County District Attorney

If the court recommends resentencing, the state parole board would need to consider the case and issue a ruling on whether to release the brothers from prison.