DENVER (AP) — A Colorado criminal defense investigator jailed for refusing to testify in a death penalty case now plans to take the stand because it might help save the defendant’s life. 
 
 Greta Lindecrantz, a Mennonite who opposes capital punishment, refused to testify for prosecutors during an appeal of the conviction and death sentence of Robert Ray, fearing her testimony could be used to help execute him. 
 
 But according to a court document filed Saturday on her intent to now testify, Ray’s lawyers say her refusal to testify is hurting his appeal and putting his life at risk. 
 
 “Based on this dramatic change in circumstance, she has concluded that her religious principles honoring human life now compel that she must testify,” Lindecrantz’s lawyer, Mari Newman, wrote in the document. 
 
 Lindecrantz worked on Ray’s original legal team, focusing on finding things that might persuade jurors to vote against the death penalty. His current lawyers are challenging his 2009 conviction and death sentence partly by arguing that he did not have an effective defense. 
 
 Prosecutors subpoenaed Lindecrantz to testify to back up their case that he did have good representation from his publicly-funded defense team. They questioned Ray’s original lawyers as part of the appeal proceedings. 
 
 One of Ray’s current lawyers, Mary Claire Mulligan, declined to comment on the defense’s position on Lindecrantz’s testimony, citing a gag order in the case and court rules. 
 
 Lindecrantz has been jailed for nearly two weeks. It’s not clear how soon she could be released and called to testify. 
 
 Ray and co-defendant Sir Mario Owens were sentenced to death for the 2005 killings of Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancee, Vivian Wolfe. Marshall-Fields had witnessed an earlier shooting that Owens was convicted of committing. 

 Prosecutors had wanted her to testify in Ray's appeal and rebut his claim that he had received a poor defense, as she had served as an investigator on his behalf. Lindecrantz has said her faith would not allow her to aid the prosecution in its push to keep Ray on death row. 
 
 But on Saturday, Lindecrantz's lawyers said in a Notice of Intent to Testify that she had changed her mind after Ray's counsel communicated "that not obtaining her testimony will adversely affect Mr. Ray's likelihood of securing a legal remedy to spare his life." 
 
 The filing says that Lindecrantz's religious objections haven't changed, but that since Ray's counsel believes her refusal may put his life at risk "this changes everything." 
 
 The filing comes a day after the court denied an emergency motion filed by Lindecrantz. 
 
 The notice of intent to testify also says that until Lindecrantz was imprisoned nearly two weeks ago, she had continued to work as a criminal defense investigator, and her continued absence could cause "her clients to suffer prejudice in their ability to prepare and present their cases." 
 
 This undated booking photo provided by the Arapahoe County, Colo., Sheriff's Office shows Greta Lindecrantz, a defense investigator jailed for refusing to testify for prosecutors in a death penalty appeal. Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office / AP 
 
 The prosecutor was unimpressed by her delayed decision. 
 
 "She is now going to do what every other person who has ever received a subpoena to testify has been expected to do, and I appreciate that," Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler told NBC News in a phone interview Saturday. 
 
 Lindecrantz belongs to the Mennonite Church USA, a Protestant church that is opposed to any violence, including war and executions. 
 
 Ray’s appeal claims that his defense team — including Lindecrantz — performed poorly in his defense. 
 
 Prosecutors aimed to have her defend her work on the stand, but Lindecrantz believed that would violate her faith's opposition to capital punishment. 
 
 "I feel like I'm having to choose between you and God," she told District Judge Michelle Amico, who found her in contempt and said Lindecrantz would remain behind bars until she fulfilled the subpoena.
– Greta Lindecrantz was sent to jail due to her religious convictions, and now, after two weeks behind bars, those religious convictions, as well as a "dramatic change in circumstance," will apparently set her free. Lindecrantz, a criminal defense investigator, was held in contempt of court Feb. 26 for refusing to testify for the prosecution in a Colorado death penalty case. As a Mennonite, Lindecrantz opposes all violence and feared testifying might help send Robert Ray, whose defense team she worked on, to his death. Now, however, the 67-year-old has had a change of heart and will testify, her lawyer says in a statement, per the Denver Post. But it's not because the prosecution swayed her—it's because Lindecrantz got wind that Ray's defense team thinks her not testifying will hurt his appeal. "Ms. Lindecrantz must take them at their word and reevaluate her position," reads the statement, which the AP notes was filed on Saturday. "Based on this dramatic change in circumstance, she has concluded that her religious principles honoring human life now compel that she must testify." Ray, convicted in 2009 of killing two people and sentenced to death, now has a new defense team, and its appeal case is partly resting on the claim that his original legal team (which included Lindecrantz) was incompetent. Prosecutors had hoped to nullify that claim by showing how competent Lindecrantz is through her testimony. But possibly putting Ray's life on the line by not testifying "changes everything," her lawyer's statement reads. On Friday, Lindecrantz's emergency motion to be released had been denied, per NBC News. It's unclear when she could now be set free to testify.