After months of contentious court fights - and three decades spent by Erik and Lyle Menendez in prison - a judge will hear arguments on whether the brothers should be resentenced, in a murder case that still divides America.

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.