The woman accused of sending death threats to a Palm Beach County man whose 6-year-old son was murdered in the Sandy Hook school mass shooting will remain jailed in Broward County while she figures out if she still wants to plead guilty or go to trial.

Lucy Richards, 57, looked disheveled and used a wheelchair for her brief appearance Wednesday in federal court in Fort Lauderdale.

She admitted she had violated the terms of her pretrial release on bond when she decided not to show up for a scheduled change-of-plea and sentencing hearing on March 29.

Richards was arrested a few days later, on April 1, in a hospital near her home in Brandon, near Tampa. She was transferred to Broward from the Pinellas County jail on Tuesday.

Richards has pleaded not guilty to four federal charges of sending threatening email and voicemail messages to Lenny Pozner. Pozner’s son, Noah, was murdered in the 2012 mass shooting.

Richards had been expected to plead guilty to one count on March 29. Federal prosecutors had planned to recommend that she would avoid any prison time and would be sentenced to house arrest and probation.

But Richards balked and phoned her attorney's office that morning. She said she was not coming to court that day.

A judge revoked her $25,000 bond and issued an arrest warrant.

Prosecutors have not said if the original plea agreement and sentencing recommendation are still on the table for her.

In court on Wednesday, Richards spoke only to ask questions about the timing of her case and whether Assistant Federal Public Defender Robert Berube will still represent her.

"The next time I go to court, it takes how long? Is it months, weeks ...?" she asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Seltzer.

The judge told her he anticipated the judge assigned to her case, Senior U.S. District Judge James Cohn, would promptly schedule her next court hearing.

Richards, a former waitress who is receiving Social Security disability payments, told court officials in Tampa after her arrest that she wanted to go to trial and did not want her fate to lie in the hands of a judge, court records show.

Prosecutors said Richards told investigators she got angry and sent the death threats to Pozner after she read online conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook shootings.

Though Richards could have avoided serving any jail time, her admitted violation of the terms of her release on bond have caused her to spend close to three weeks in jail and she will likely remain locked up for at least several more weeks.