Irina Malinovskaya, a Wharton undergraduate charged with first-degree murder, will face her second trial Sept. 12.
A hung jury voted 11-1 in favor of Malinovskaya's acquittal in February, and prosecutors have decided to hold a retrial.
Malinovskaya is accused of murdering Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov. At the time of her death, Zlotnikov was dating Malinovskaya's ex-boyfriend, Robert Bondar. Zlotnikov was found beaten to death in Bondar's New Castle, Del., apartment Dec. 23, 2004.
Malinovskaya's retrial was initially scheduled for May of this year, but was pushed back to September earlier in the summer.
During the February trial, Malinovskaya said that she had planned to meet Bondar at his apartment on the day of the murder but said that she never entered his home that day because the door was locked and no one answered.
Prosecutors accused Malinovskaya of changing her story based on an earlier statement that she gave to police in which she denied being near Bondar's apartment on the day of the killing.
Malinovskaya will remain at the Baylor Women's Correctional Institute in New Castle until a final verdict is reached. She has been held there since December 2004.
If convicted, Malinovskaya could face life imprisonment.
Malinovskaya's lawyer, Eugene Maurer, did not return repeated phone calls for comment.
State prosecutors were also not available to speak about the case.
