Purvi Patel, the Indiana woman who was convicted of feticide after self-inducing an abortion in 2013, received a partial vindication last week when an appeals court threw out that charge. The court also reduced a second charge of neglecting a dependent.

Now, the politically charged case — set in the home state of Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, and evoking presidential nominee Donald Trump’s since-retracted comments that women should be “punished” for having an abortion — is at a crossroads.

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Patel’s attorney, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Marshall, said he and his client were still reviewing their options. A spokesman for the Indiana Attorney General’s Office said there was no new information about the state’s intentions beyond its statement issued on July 22.

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Marshall argued that it was contradictory to charge Patel of both feticide and neglect of a dependent.