SANTA ANA – A 30-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 26 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing a Pasadena woman in a Westminster hotel six years ago.
Aryan Vito Smith made an open plea to murder with a sentencing enhancement for using a deadly weapon on March 8.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Sheila Hanson ruled Smith committed a first-degree murder after considering more evidence. If she had found it was second-degree murder the punishment would have been 16 years to life…