Relatives of Mary Beth San Juan are expected to attend today’s sentencing of the man who admitted to the 2013 slaying of the Honolulu real estate broker and aspiring actress.

Vernon Baker, 44, pleaded guilty in February to murder in a plea deal with the prosecutor.

The mandatory penalty for second-degree murder is life in prison with the possibility for release on parole. The Hawaii Paroling Authority sets the minimum amount of time a felon sentenced to a life prison term must spend behind bars before becoming eligible for parole.

When a state grand jury returned a murder indictment against Baker in 2013, it served him notice, however, that he could get an enhanced penalty of life in prison without parole if the court found that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manifesting exceptional depravity.

In exchange for his guilty plea, the prosecutor promised not to pursue the enhanced sentence. The prosecutor also promised to recommend a parole minimum of 20 years.

San Juan’s ex-husband found her body wrapped in a rug in the driveway of her Punahou Street home in July 2013. San Juan was bound, gagged and had been stabbed multiple times.

Honolulu police said bank video shows Baker withdrawing money from an ATM in Manoa using San Juan’s bank card one day before San Juan’s body was discovered. They also said a witness saw Baker in San Juan’s driveway next to the open trunk of her car just hours before the body was discovered.

Police said they found the car the next day in Kapiolani Park, and found San Juan’s wallet another two days later in a trash bin outside the Waikiki hostel where Baker was living.

A woman who wound up with San Juan’s laptop computer told police she received it from a homeless man. The man told police he got the computer from Baker, who asked him to sell it.

Police said San Juan and Baker were acquaintances. A friend said he believes San Juan met Baker through their mutual religious interests.