Attorneys for accused killer Claudia Hoerig are setting the stage for what their defense arguments could be in the nearly 11-year-old murder case. 

In a motion filed in Trumbull County Court on Monday on behalf of Claudia Hoerig asks the court to allow an expert on domestic violence and Battered Woman Syndrome to help the defense prepare for the trial. 

Hoerig, 54, is accused of shooting and killing her husband Air Force Major Karl Hoerig in March of 2007 inside their Newton Falls home.

She then fled to Brazil after her husband's death. 

The motion requests that licensed psychologist Karla Fischer be paid and permitted to help the defense in preparation for the trial. 

The filing requests that the court pay more than $6,000 for Fischer's assistance. Hoerig has previously been declared indigent and assigned public defenders. 

According to the motion, Fischer has been considered an expert witness on psychological issues associated with domestic violence in cases such as homicides and assault for nearly 25 years. 

In a previous court filing by the prosecutor's office, an apparent transcript of a conversation Hoerig had with investigators appears to contain claims that Hoerig's husband was experiencing depression and had forced her to dye her hair in order to resemble a previous wife. 

According to Hoerig's defense attorneys, Fischer has written several scholarly texts on domestic violence cases in the courtroom and presented in dozens of conferences and lectures. 

In a separate motion filed Monday, Hoerig's attorneys also ask for evidence seized from Hoerig's home and car days after the murder be excluded from the trial. 

That motion claims that when officers responded to the home on March 15, 2007, in order to conduct a welfare check, they entered the home without a warrant. 

The filing says that after discovering the body of Karl Hoerig in the residence, officers searched the Defendant's Subaru automobile without a warrant. Hoerig's attorneys said officers then secured search warrants for the residence as well as the Defendant's BMW automobile after the fact. 

In addition, Hoerig's attorneys claim that the affidavits for the search warrant did not adequately include a list of everything that was to be seized during the search. 

The attorneys also requested that the court dismiss any statements that were given by Hoerig to investigators "because they were the "fruits of the poisonous tree" planted by the violation of Defendant's Fourth Amendment rights law enforcement searched her home and automobiles."

Hoerig is set to be back in court on May 3rd. 

A jury trial is slated to begin in September.