A Union City man was supposed to enter a plea June 15 on a charge that he murdered a transgender woman he'd been romantically involved with, but the plea was pushed back to July 28.
The reason is because Peter Johnson, the attorney representing Elijah Cruz Segura, 22, said he needed more time for discovery, according to Margaret Petros, the executive director of Mothers Against Murder, who is handling communications for the family of the victim, Natalia Smüt Lopez. "[Segura's] attorney is still doing discovery, so he will not plead," Petros told the Bay Area Reporter. "There are documents needed by his attorney before he will plead.