The woman charged with killing Pottsville jeweler Patrick Murphy has a pretrial conference set for Oct. 27.

One was scheduled for Oct. 6 but was changed. A reason was not provided on the docket sheet. Megan Hall appeared via virtual courtroom with her lawyer John Fuller in New Orleans Criminal District Court then. Assistant District Attorney Matthew Derbes was present on behalf of the prosecution.

A Sept. 27 trial date had been vacated due to the aftermath of Hurricane Ida because jurors were not available. Trials are not to resume until Oct. 18 Hall is charged with killing Murphy Feb. 28, 2019, in New Orleans.

She is in jail at the Orleans Parish Justice Center on $750,000 bond. Hall is charged with second-degree murder, armed robbery and obstruction of justice. A grand jury voted to indict Hall in June 2019.

Police say Hall stabbed Murphy at The Empress Hotel, 137 Ursulines St. in the Treme section of New Orleans. A hotel employee found his body at 11:41 a.m.

Murphy, who had been the owner of Murphy Jewelers, had been visiting the city with his wife after he attended a jewelry convention in Arizona.

If Hall is convicted of the murder charge, she faces a mandatory lifetime prison sentence. An armed robbery conviction is 10 to 99 years in state prison and up to 40 years for the obstruction charge.