DENVER -- Lisl Auman, the woman once sentenced to live in prison without parole, moved to a halfway house Monday as part of her plea bargain to lesser charges.

Auman, 29, was originally convicted of felony murder in the shooting death of a Denver police officer, but the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial. The Denver woman reached a plea bargain with prosecutors that allowed her to serve 20 years in a community corrections program in Denver, including six months at Tooley Hall halfway house, with credit given for the nearly eight years she'd already served in prison.

She'll stay in Tooley Hall for six months before she is eligible to live on her own, to finish nine years under close supervision.

Auman was handcuffed and sitting in the back seat of a police car on Nov. 12, 1997, when Denver officer Bruce VanderJagt was shot and killed by a man she met the night before. The man, Matthaus Jaehnig, killed himself as police closed in on him that same day.

VanderJagt's widow had supported Auman's plea for a new trial.

Auman's case attracted national attention because she was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Celebrities including Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Benecio Del Toro and the late Hunter S. Thompson came out in support of Auman.