PARIS – A state Senate candidate from Hartford, who is accused of felony cultivation and trafficking in marijuana, continues to wait for her day in court.

Julia Justine St. James, through her lawyer, David Q. Whittier of South Paris, filed a motion to suppress the charges.

But their hearing, scheduled for Oct. 6 in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris, wasn’t held, Whittier said Thursday afternoon.

Instead, it was continued to a date yet to be determined, he added.

St. James, 44, is currently campaigning for the District 14 Maine Senate seat as a member of the Fourth Branch party.

Her opponents are incumbent state Sen. Bruce S. Bryant, D-Dixfield, and Robert A. Cameron, R-Rumford.

St. James was arrested Feb. 27 by Oxford County deputies who had a warrant to search her two-story home on Mountain View Drive.

She was charged with two felonies – aggravated trafficking in marijuana and aggravated cultivation of marijuana – after deputies, drug enforcement agents and state troopers seized more than 175 pot plants found growing in a greenhouse on her property.

Additionally, police seized what they estimated to be more than three pounds of processed marijuana ready for distribution, $715 cash, an unloaded 12-gauge shotgun, and a .44-caliber Magnum revolver, which police said was loaded with six bullets and one in the chamber.

After being indicted on March 18 by an Oxford County grand jury, St. James pleaded innocent at her April 9 arraignment.

She has been free on $10,000 cash bail.