A Sept. 27 trial date has been set for Megan Hall, accused of killing Pottsville business man Patrick Murphy.

The date was chosen at a pretrial conference today in New Orleans Criminal District Court. Hall and her attorney John Fuller participated via virtual courtroom, court documents show. A pretrial conference date is set for Sept. 20.

Fuller was not available for comment.

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. She 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.