MARION COUNTY — The jury trial of a 24-year-old Salem woman on charges including attempted escape has been postponed in Marion County Court until June.

Christina Thomason, who has already been convicted and sentenced for the 2015 murder of her infant daughter, appeared in court today in custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Thomason is charged with felony attempted escape and felony criminal damage to government property in connection with an alleged incident while she was an inmate at the Marion County Jail.

The results of this case will have bearing on her current sentence for the first-degree murder of baby Aribella. For the murder of 3-month-old Aribella, Thomason was sentenced to 45-years each on two counts first-degree murder to be served concurrently. She will have to serve 100-percent of that sentence, meaning she would be 69-years-old when released from prison.

However, a conviction on the attempted escape charge would require the 45-year sentences in the murder case to be served consecutively, meaning Thomason would have to serve at least 90-years in prison.

But defense motions in the escape case must be heard by Judge Mark Stedelin, so Judge Ericka Sanders today vacated a June jury setting and instead scheduled the case for a June 21 motion hearing.

Meanwhile, Thomason remains in custody of the Logan Correctional Center where she is serving what is now a 45-year prison sentence for first-degree murder.