Sentencing for a man convicted in the 1994 killing of a wealthy Newport Beach businessman was delayed until next year, officials announced Friday in a Santa Ana courtroom .
Eric Naposki, 44, was convicted of first-degree murder in July in connection with the death of Bill McLaughlin.
Prosecutors said McLaughlin was killed so Naposki and his then-girlfriend, Nanette Packard, could live rent-free in McLaughlin's beachfront home and collect his $1 million life insurance money.
Naposki is a former linebacker for the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts, but went "beyond broke" and was working as a bouncer at the Thunderbird Nightclub — 131 yards away from McLaughlin's home — at the time of the murder, prosecutors said in their opening statements in June.
