Miguel Tapia was charged with murder in the death of Holly Berry in 2014 and has accepted a plea agreement. But his sentencing has been delayed.

A man accused of killing a Maricopa woman received another delay in his sentencing Tuesday.

Miguel Tapia, 23, accused of killing Holly Berry, was to have been sentenced after reaching a plea deal with the Pinal County Attorney’s Office. That has been delayed for the third time. The sentencing is now set for Dec. 4.

Berry died May 18, 2014, at her home in the Villages at Rancho El Dorado. She was 43.

She was found in the backyard at the end of a trail of blood from the kitchen of the home on Cyndee Drive. According to the Maricopa Police Department report, Tapia told officers he and Berry had been pushing each other until she fell. MPD reported Tapia, who was 21 at the time, was in a relationship with Berry.

He was originally charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault and tampering with evidence.

Superior Court Judge Joseph Georgini said since the acceptance of a plea agreement, several motions have been filed in the case. Many were filed in the past week by defense attorney Marc Victor.

The most pressing issue was the lack of a final pre-sentence investigative report. Usually written in the probation office, the pre-sentence report looks into the history of the defendant to help the judge determine sentencing. The person who was to have written Tapia’s report retired and no one else was assigned the duty.

The Pinal County Attorney’s Office argued it was Tapia’s defense attorney who caused the delay by not making Tapia available. Georgini said he was not assessing blame but felt there was good cause to push back the sentencing.