The brothers will be resentenced — a major victory in their decades-long effort to be released from prison after murdering their parents.

After seven months of hearings, court filings and news conferences, Lyle and Erik Menendez faced their first possibility of freedom Tuesday as a two-day resentencing hearing got underway, three decades after they were convicted of the 1989 murders of their parents.

In a bid for freedom after spending more than 30 years in prison, a resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers is underway on Tuesday inside a Los Angeles courtroom. Erik and Lyle Menendez are currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole for the 1989 killings of their parents,