A defense attorney for the former grocery clerk convicted of the decades-old murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz asked a Manhattan judge to delay his client’s sentencing by one week. Pedro Hernandez, 56, was convicted Feb. 14 on retrial of second-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. Hernandez’s first trial, in 2015, ended in a hung jury.

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