Anthony Shegog had a pre-trial conference scheduled for Monday.
The 61-year-old is the Columbia man who was convicted in September 2015 of stabbing Walter Lige to death behind a home near Hickman High School in 2014.
That verdict was vacated in July 2018 though, after a judge ruled his attorneys were ineffective.
Shegog was looking at a 30-year prison sentence before getting a new trial.