AUSTIN (KXAN/AP) – After a hearing that lasted only seven minutes early Friday morning, a judge granted a delay in the murder trial for Mark Norwood.

Judge Burt Carnes granted a continuance, and the trial that was set for Jan. 7 may now not come until March.

Defense attorneys have been wanting more time to find a new DNA expert, and they will be getting two new DNA experts for the trial. Still, the state will stick with Travis County’s DNA expert.

Lawyers for the man charged in the 1986 killing of an Austin woman — whose husband wrongly spent nearly 25 years in prison for the crime — asked a judge on Monday to delay the January trial.

Norwood is charged with capital murder in the death of Christine Morton. The case drew widespread attention last year when Michael Morton, Christine’s husband, was freed from prison after DNA evidence finally proved his innocence.

Earlier this month, Norwood was also indicted in a separate 1988 slaying of another Austin woman who lived just blocks away from the Morton home.