A month before a potentially pivotal resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers and as the LA County Distract Attorney rejects a new trial for the siblings, Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a risk assessment probe for Erik Menendez and Lyle Menendez as a clemency petition sits on his desk.

Attorneys for Lyle and Erik Menendez said Wednesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the state parole board to investigate whether the brothers would pose a risk to the public if they are released after nearly three decades in prison for the 1989 killing of their parents.

Gov. Newsom says he has directed the California Board of Parole to begin its risk assessment investigation into the application for commutation by the Menendez brothers. The brothers are serving life sentences for their 1996 convictions in the 1989 murders of their parents at the family's Beverly Hills mansion.

Gov. Gavin Newsom orders a risk assessment for the Menendez brothers, with a March resentencing hearing that could make them parole-eligible.

Governor Gavin Newsom's decision to ask the California Board of Parole to review the Erik and Lyle Menendez matter could make next month's up-to-now critical resentencing hearing all but irrelevant.