MARTINEZ, Calif.-
A teenager convicted of murdering the wife of defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole.
Scott Dyleski was 16 when he bludgeoned and stabbed his neighbor, Pamela Vitale, 45, in her Lafayette home last October.
He avoided the death penalty because of his age, now 17, but his lawyer argued he should get 25 years to life because of his youth and troubled upbringing.
Prosecutors suggested Dyleski killed the woman for fear she was about to discover he was stealing neighbors’ credit cards and ordering pot-growing equipment.
Prosecutors said he got into fight with Vitale after going to her home to pick up equipment that he believed had been shipped to her address.
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