LOCKPORT—A new trial date of March 22 was set Wednesday for Darnell D. Carter, charged with killing a man during a robbery on a Niagara Falls street March 20.

Attorneys in the case had long since given up on the notion of starting the trial Monday, as Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza had originally scheduled, because of complex pretrial wrangling over evidence.

Carter, 22, of 12th Street, Niagara Falls, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Robert R. Biggs, 39, of Maple Avenue, Niagara Falls. The holdup, in which Carter is alleged to have been one of several participants, occurred on Pierce Avenue. No one else has been charged in the case so far.

The evidentiary hearing is to continue Dec. 22, a date which is also expected to feature arguments on a prosecution request to obtain a DNA sample from Carter.