LONG BEACH -- Sentencing was postponed Monday in the case of a 42-year-old Long Beach convicted in the beating and slashing death of a 70-year-old cancer patient.
Andrew Felton Odom is now scheduled to be sentenced on July 8 for the 2008 murder of Rita Wiley. A hearing will also be held that day to determine whether Odom's prior convictions can be factored into his sentence.
Odom was convicted last month for the killing of Wiley, a woman who was described as a second mother to the defendant.
Her body was found in the back yard of her Long Beach home late on Aug. 21, 2008, by her friend and roommate, Sandra Patterson.
Patterson said Wiley and Odom may have had a falling out when Wiley refused to let Odom use her car the night of her death.
Police arrested Odom for Wiley's slaying shortly after Patterson made the gruesome discovery and Odom has remained in custody since that time.
The 42-year-old defendant is facing the possibility of life in prison when he returns to the Long Beach Superior Court next month.
tracy.manzer@presstelegram.com, 562-499-1261.
Andrew Felton Odom is now scheduled to be sentenced on July 8 for the 2008 murder of Rita Wiley. A hearing will also be held that day to determine whether Odom's prior convictions can be factored into his sentence.
Odom was convicted last month for the killing of Wiley, a woman who was described as a second mother to the defendant.
Her body was found in the back yard of her Long Beach home late on Aug. 21, 2008, by her friend and roommate, Sandra Patterson.
Patterson said Wiley and Odom may have had a falling out when Wiley refused to let Odom use her car the night of her death.
Police arrested Odom for Wiley's slaying shortly after Patterson made the gruesome discovery and Odom has remained in custody since that time.
The 42-year-old defendant is facing the possibility of life in prison when he returns to the Long Beach Superior Court next month.
tracy.manzer@presstelegram.com, 562-499-1261.
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