The St. Petersburg man sentenced to life for the 2011 murder of a St. Petersburg police officer is scheduled for another resentencing hearing Friday.

This is Nicholas Lindsey's second attempt at getting his life sentence reduced.

Defense attorneys for Lindsey are asking that his life sentence be reduced to a 40-year sentence.

Lindsey was found guilty in March 2012 of shooting and killing St. Petersburg Police Officer David Crawford on Feb. 21, 2011 near Tropicana Field. Lindsey was 16 at the time of the killing but was tried as an adult.

He is now 22.

The request for resentencing comes in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling affecting minors sentenced to life in prison. The January 2016 ruling declared that people sentenced as teenagers to mandatory life imprisonment for murder must have a chance to argue that they should be released from prison.

A judge upheld Lindsey's life sentence in 2013 during his first resentencing hearing. 

Today's hearing comes on the heels of a scheduled hearing last week that was pushed back. A final decision from the judge is expected today.