SANDPOINT — A Coeur d’Alene woman awaiting trial for first-degree murder has fallen ill at the Bonner County Jail, according to court documents.

Arrange-ments were being made for Judith Marie Carpenter to be taken to Coeur d’Alene for advanced diagnostic imaging and to her primary care physician’s private office in Rathdrum, but the transportation order was vacated by 1st District Judge Barbara Buchanan earlier this month, court records show.

“The Bonner County Jail has serious concerns about this order,” Buchanan noted on the vacated order.

Carpenter’s defense counsel, Coeur d’Alene attorney Joseph R. Sullivan, tried scheduling an exam by Carpenter’s doctor at the jail, but the request was denied, according to court documents.

An evidentiary hearing to show the medical necessity of the defense’s requests appears to be pending, but has not been scheduled yet. Sullivan said Carpenter’s doctor knows her medical history and says his client needs to be examined in order to prepare for the hearing. Moreover, Carpenter is uncomfortable with a male doctor conducting the examination.

“A physical exam will need to take place in order to diagnose the defendant and decide what further procedures need to be administered to treat the ongoing health issues the defendant is experiencing,” Sullivan said in a motion asking for Carpenter to be examined by her doctor.

Carpenter, 58, is accused of shooting Shirley Ann Ramey to death in Ramey’s Trestle Creek home on April 5, 2017. Carpenter pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to be tried in December.

Carpenter is being held at the jail with bail set at $1 million.

Carpenter was ordered to stand trial after sheriff’s deputies and Idaho State Police officials testified at a preliminary hearing that a semiautomatic Glock pistol belonging to Carpenter was linked the killing of Ramey through ballistic analyses. Carpenter also possessed a lever-action rifle that was stolen from the Ramey residence, according to court documents.

It also emerged during the hearing that Carpenter spent time in state hospitals in Montana and Idaho for unspecified reasons after she was arrested for allegedly threatening a motorist with a firearm in Montana on the same day Ramey, 78, was slain.

Keith Kinnaird can be reached by email at kkinnaird@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow him on Twitter @KeithDailyBee.