A now-former dentist convicted of the financially motivated murder of his mother at her Beverly Hills home was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In a lengthy statement shortly before the sentence was imposed, Daniel Yacobi maintained that he had been wrongfully convicted of the Oct. 9, 2017, death of his 67-year-old mother, Violet.

“I would never harm a hair on her head because she was my mom,” the defendant said, calling what happened to her “an accident … not a homicide.”

“I’m not a murderer. I’m not a criminal. I’m a law-abiding citizen,” Yacobi said, adding that he is “suffering because I’m alone.”

The 43-year-old defendant was convicted Aug. 22 of first-degree murder, with jurors finding true the special-circumstance allegation of murder for fin

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