Man Gets Life in Murder of Simpson Case Bailiff
A 29-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for a crime wave that includes the murder of an off-duty bailiff for Superior Court Judge Lance Ito.
The shooting of the deputy occurred at a time when he was looking after jurors sequestered in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial.
Superior Court Judge Janice Croft sentenced Terrance Keith Patridge, to 54 years to life in prison for the murder of Antranik Geuvjehizian, who was shot outside his Pasadena home.
In addition, Patridge was sentenced to 373 years plus life in prison in a separate case involving a home invasion robbery and multiple rapes and sexual assaults.
Last month, a Pasadena jury convicted Patridge for the murder of the 32-year-old sheriff’s deputy known among his courthouse friends as “G-12” for the number of letters in his last name.
Authorities say Geuvjehizian saw a man in front of his neighbor’s home on Pasadena’s South Los Robles Avenue and confronted him. A struggle ensued and the deputy was fatally wounded. Patridge confessed to police that he was there.
Ito, who lived in the same neighborhood, adjourned the Simpson trial the day after the murder in his bailiff’s memory.
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