WISCASSET (AP) – A judge on Tuesday ordered a woman acquitted of murder in Maine to be held without bail while awaiting trial on a charge of violating her probation by allegedly drinking and assaulting her husband of three weeks in Tennessee.

Amy Bowen, formerly Amy Dugas, was brought back to Maine this month after being arrested in March for a second time. In September 2006, police also arrested and charged her with domestic assault. Both incidents happened at her home in Rockvale, Tenn.

If her probation is revoked, Bowen could be sentenced to as much as 10 months in jail.

A trial date has been set for August.

District Attorney Geoff Rushlau urged the judge Tuesday to keep Bowen behind bars because of her track record in Tennessee. Bowen already has been returned to jail in Maine once following her first probation violation. “As I told the judge, she was only out of jail and back on probation for a short period of time before she was arrested again in Tennessee, and that certainly does not look good if she was released again,” he told WCSH-TV.

In Maine, Amy Dugas was acquitted of murder after testifying that she stabbed her husband Mark with a kitchen knife in 2004 in self defense.

She was later found guilty of assaulting her husband and a sheriff’s deputy in a separate incident that took place prior to the slaying in Waldoboro, Maine. In that incident, she kicked a police officer in the groin when he tried to arrest her.

Bowen, who took on her maiden name when she moved to Tennessee to start a new life, is married to a former jail guard from Maine.

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