Despite a defense attorney’s concerns about how one juror reached her decision to vote guilty, a judge on Friday sentenced a 24-year-old man to prison for 15 years to life in the beating death of a man whose body was left to burn inside the recreational vehicle where he lived in Long Beach.

Anthony Josua Paz was the last of five defendants sentenced in the Jan. 27, 2014 killing of 60-year-old Thomas Taylor.

Prosecutors alleged the group had been meeting with Taylor to do drugs in his motor home, but after Taylor told them he wanted more privacy and no longer wanted them around, they attacked him and set his home on fire.

In November, a jury convicted Paz of second-degree murder.

Friday, Paz’s attorney asked to delay the sentencing because he hoped to talk with a juror about something she said after the trial.

The juror asked why the panel wasn’t given the option of voting to convict Paz on a charge less serious than second-degree murder, according to Alternate Public Defender Ernesto Pacheco and Deputy District Attorney Rachel Hardiman, who both described the conversation.

Pacheco recalled the woman said she believed Paz participated in the attack but didn’t think it rose to the level of second-degree murder.

Nevertheless, she voted to convict on that charge.

Hardiman said there was no reason to delay the sentencing because the juror wasn’t bullied or coerced into that decision.

“My impression was she just felt badly about it,” Hardiman said.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary J. Ferrari ultimately agreed, saying the juror was simply describing her decision-making process.

“There’s no misconduct,” he said.

Four other defendants in the case have already been sentenced to prison time for the attack on Taylor.

Jazmin Montanez, 37, was given a 25-to-life prison Wednesday after being convicted of first-degree murder in November.

Montanez was the one who instigated the killing, according to Hardiman.

Each of the three other codefendants pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a deadly weapon with great bodily injury and received a sentence of eight years in prison, prosecutors said.

They are Diana Sequen, 23, Jose Zolorza, 21, and David Romero, 31, according to authorities.

Authorities said Long Beach police on routine patrol discovered Taylor’s body inside the burning motor home in an alley behind the 500 block of West 17th Street when they smelled smoke.