YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - The woman brought back to face trial in Trumbull County more than a decade after she was charged with murdering her husband in Newton Falls is asking a federal judge to throw out the charges filed against her and release her from jail.

The public defender representing Claudia Hoerig has filed what is known as a Petitions for a Writ of Habeas Corpus in U.S. District Court claiming that her arrest is unconstitutional because she was denied her right to a speedy trial.

Investigators say now 54-year-old Hoerig fled to her native Brazil after her husband, Air Force Major Karl Hoerig was found shot to death at the couple’s Newton Falls home on March 15, 2007.

Ten years of efforts by local, state and federal officials resulted in Claudia Hoerig being brought back to Ohio from Brazil earlier this year.

Hoerig's attorney says she should be released because her 2016 arrest in Brazil was based on a "fabricated" affidavit and that the "speedy trial clock" has been running since that arrest, including 22 months in a Brazilian prison.

Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Andrew Logan has already rejected similar arguments from Hoerig, who says that the judge has refused to revisit her claims before her trial, which is scheduled early next year.

Along with her petition, Hoerig also filed paperwork to proceed with the case without paying the fees for filing in federal court, claiming she has no income.

The petition was filed on Friday.  The prosecution has not yet filed a response.

Several prisoners file similar petitions each week in U.S. District Court in Youngstown.

Hoerig remains in the Trumbull County Jail on $10 million dollar bond where she has been held since being brought back from Brazil in mid-January.