Charles T. Thompson must wait at least two more weeks to learn his fate for a burglary conviction.
After a three-day trial, a Cole County jury deliberated more than three hours on March 16 before convicting Thompson, 19, of St. Louis, of first-degree burglary.
The jurors found him not guilty of second-degree murder, first-degree attempted robbery and armed criminal action in the February 2015 death of Johnny Evans, 52, during a robbery at Evans' residence in the 1100 block of East High Street.
The state Probation and Parole Board submitted its sentencing advisory report last week, in time for Presiding Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce to make a sentencing decision and impose a sentence during Wednesday's court appearance.
But on June 2, Thompson was charged with first-degree tampering with a motor vehicle, resisting arrest, second-degree assault and leaving the scene of an accident - all connected with a crosstown high-speed chase.
While public defender David Wallis, of Columbia, represented Thompson in the murder trial, attorney Walter Stokely of the Jefferson City Public Defender's office was assigned the new case. Both attorneys asked Joyce Wednesday for a delay in sentencing in the burglary conviction.
She re-scheduled the case for July 6.
Thompson was charged, along with two Jefferson City men, of killing Evans during a botched robbery for drugs and money.
Both Vincent Smith, 27, and Robert Burks, 25, testified during the March trial that Thompson had carried a gun into Evans' home, then shot the victim.
But Thompson - who didn't testify during the trial - insisted during hours of recorded police interviews that "I didn't shoot anyone. It was not me."
Burks was sentenced in April to five years in prison as part of a plea deal he received to testify in Thompson's murder trial.
He pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree burglary, and the second-degree murder and attempted robbery charges were dismissed. His new sentence is to run at the same time as other prison sentences he already is serving.
Smith was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison after also pleading guilty to first-degree burglary as part of a plea deal.
In Thompson's June 2 incident, a Jefferson City police officer thought Thompson acted suspiciously when they passed each other in the 700 block of West Stadium Boulevard, so the officer ran a license plate check and learned the car had been reported stolen in St. Louis County.
So the officer tried to stop Thompson, who then fled eastbound on Missouri Boulevard, on to the U.S. 50-63 Expressway where Thompson drove the wrong way for two blocks. The high-speed chase continued east to the McCarty Street exit, where Thompson headed back west on McCarty before he running into a vehicle at the St. Louis Road intersection. Police said Thompson then ran into some nearby woods where he ultimately was captured.
He continues to be held in the Cole County Jail.