It won’t be until September before the Colorado Supreme Court decides if it will hear an appeal over the decision to reverse the conviction of Letecia Stauch, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her 11-year-old stepson.

Colorado attorney general spokesperson Lawrence Pacheco confirmed to The Gazette on Wednesday that the appeal was filed on June 29.

The Colorado Supreme Court’s next term starts in September, when the judges will determine if the court will take the case, spokesperson Suzanne Karrer told The Gazette.

If the court denies the appeal, the case will be sent back to the 4th Judicial District and a second trial will happen.

Stauch, 42, was found guilty in May 2023 of stabbing her stepson, Gannon Stauch, 18 times, beating him with an unknown blunt object and shooting him in the head at their Lorson Ranch home in unincorporated El Paso County in January 2020. She then stuffed his body into a suitcase and threw it off a bridge in Florida at a later date.

In April, her conviction was overturned after the Colorado Court of Appeals found the trial court committed a “structural error” by failing to remove a juror who had a son-in-law employed as a deputy district attorney in the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Colorado law prohibits a juror from having a relationship within the third degree, including marriage, with any involved parties.

The attorney’s office told The Gazette at the time that the decision was disappointing, but that it remained “undeterred” in its pursuit of justice.

If necessary, the office said it’s prepared for another trial.

Stauch pleaded not guilty to her first-degree murder charge by reason of insanity, arguing that she suffered from dissociative identity disorder. Her defense didn’t deny that she killed her stepson, but argued the killing happened during a psychotic breakdown. The jurors ultimately rejected the argument.

She was sentenced to two life sentences without parole, 12 years in prison for tampering with a deceased human body and 18 months for tampering with physical evidence, The Gazette previously reported.

While her case remains in limbo, Stauch resides at the Colorado Department of Corrections, where inmate records show she is being held at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility.