The Beverly Hills home where the Menendez brothers shot their parents dead in 1996 is in the midst of major renovations—even as incarcerated siblings Erik and Lyle Menendez are due to make a bid for freedom at a resentencing hearing in Los Angeles.

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.