Las Vegas – A woman, who has been in state psychiatric treatment for more than seven years, is set to go on trial Thursday after being accused of deliberately ramming her car into a pedestrian on the sidewalk of the Las Vegas Strip in December 2015, causing the death of one person. postponed.

Paris Paradise Morton told Clark County District Court Judge Tierra Jones that she would like to be represented by another public defender in murder and 70 other felonies. The accident killed an Arizona woman and injured dozens near the Paris Las Vegas and Planet Hollywood resorts.

Morton this week rejected a plea bargain to avoid a trial that was scheduled to begin on May 30. A judge has scheduled a closed-door hearing with Morton next Wednesday to determine whether she will hire a new attorney. A new trial date has not been set.

Morton, now 32, was charged as LaKeisha Nicole Holloway, the name she gave authorities following the crash that occurred just days before Christmas 2015. Records show that she had legally changed her name from Holloway to Morton before the accident.

Jessica Valenzuela, 32, a tourist from Buckeye, Arizona, was killed, and at least 35 people from multiple states, Mexico and Canada were injured, officials said.

Clark County and Las Vegas recently installed rows of vehicular barriers, called bollards, along the curbs of Las Vegas Boulevard and pedestrian sidewalks to prevent similar accidents.

Morton’s daughter, then 3, was also in the car at the time of the accident, after which she drove to a casino hotel outside the Strip and asked employees to call the police. Scott Coffee, Morton’s public defender, said Morton no longer has custody.

Coffee said the client is from Portland, Oregon, and had traveled to several cities in the United States and Canada before arriving in Las Vegas days before the accident.

Morton told investigators that he lived in the car with his daughter and slept in the casino parking lot until security asked him to leave. Authorities said she may have been on her way to Texas to see her father at the time of the accident.