Newsom on Monday plans to propose a new parole board process that could clear a path for more prisoners to have their sentences shortened via a risk assessment investigation similar to the one currently underway for Erik and Lyle Menendez.

Gavin Newsom announced a risk assessment of Lyle and Erik Menendez to determine whether the convicts "pose a current, unreasonable risk to public safety."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed the state's parole board to investigate whether Erik and Lyle Menendez pose an "unreasonable" public safety risk if released from prison, where the siblings have spent decades for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents,

Erik and Lyle Menendez will NOT have their day in court this month ... because their upcoming resentencing hearing has been postponed, and it's all because of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

The probe initiated by the governor signals that Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have been in prison for nearly 35 years for the 1989 murders of their parents, could possibly see their life sentences comm

District Attorney Nathan Hochman is expected to provide an update on the Lyle and Erik Menendez case at a news conference.