The Huntsville Times via AP, file
Biology professor Amy Bishop is escorted by sheriff's deputies at the Madison County Courthouse in Hunstville, Ala. on Sept. 11.
By NBC News and news services
A former university professor who pleaded guilty to shooting six people during a faculty meeting in Alabama was in court on Monday for what is expected to be an abbreviated trial.
A judge scheduled jury selection Monday for Amy Bishop, a Harvard-educated biologist who went on the shooting spree at the University of Alabama in Huntsville in Feb. 2010.
Bishop showed up to the court with her feet shackled wearing a red prison uniform.
The entire trial is only expected to last a few hours, according to WHDH-TV in Boston.
On Sept. 11, Bishop pleaded guilty to killing three people and wounding three others. By doing so, she avoided a possible death sentence with the plea and instead faces life imprisonment.
But a trial is still required under Alabama law because Bishop admitted to a capital charge of murder, so?lawyers will select a jury and Circuit Judge Alan Mann will hold a brief trial.
Bishop also faces possible trial in the shooting death of her brother in Massachusetts in 1986.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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