A district court judge in Las Cruces has postponed the retrial of a former Santa Fe County sheriff's deputy accused of killing a fellow deputy in 2014.
The original retrial of Tai Chan had been set for Nov. 28.
A judge Monday granted a stipulation motion to vacate the November date, but didn't set a new retrial date.
Prosecutors are seeking to have the retrial in February.
Chan's first trial ended in a mistrial in June.
He had been charged with first-degree murder in fellow deputy Jeremy Martin's death.
The two 29-year-old deputies were in Las Cruces the night of the shooting in October 2014, staying at a hotel after transporting prisoners to Arizona.
Martin died of his injuries at a hospital. Chan's attorneys say the shooting was in self-defense.
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