Leslie Ann Nelson, recent Edna Mahan Correctional Facility Inmate of the Month, will be representing herself (with a public defender present to assist her or take over if the court rules it necessary) at the sentencing trial which will determine if she receives the death penalty.

Armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and a 9 mm handgun, Leslie Ann Nelson killed the two officers during a 1995 standoff at her Haddon Heights home.

The officers had gone to the house to look for illegal weapons.

Nelson pleaded guilty to killing the officers in April 1995.

Two juries have handed down death sentences against Nelson, known as Glenn Nelson before her 1992 transformation, and both times, the state Supreme Court has overturned the sentence because of the way prosecutors handled the case.