SALEM – Kathleen Hilton, the Lynn woman who has spent nearly 10 years in jail awaiting trial for allegedly setting a fire that killed five people in the Highlands in 1999, will get her day in court on Nov. 3.On Monday, Regional Area Justice Howard J. Whitehead set down Nov. 3 for the jury trial to begin in Salem Superior Court.The case had been scheduled for trial in September, but was postponed due to the court schedule.The trial is expected to last three weeks with 50 to 60 witnesses expected to testify, including a number of expert witnesses for both the commonwealth and defense.Assistant District Attorney Marsha H. Slingerland and defense lawyer Michael F. Natola agreed to meet in court on Oct. 6 for a final pretrial conference.Natola previously has said, “This is not a case of ‘I did it.'” The defense apparently is going to be based on Hilton’s “involuntary” statement to police and a significant portion of the case will involve her mental status at the time of the statements.”It is not a defense of lack or diminished capacity,” Natola assured the court two months ago.Hilton, 61, formerly of 61 Hollingsworth St., Lynn, stands charged with five counts of second-degree murder as well as a single count of arson and injury to a firefighter in the Feb. 24, 1999 triple-decker fire at 44-46 High Rock St.She has pleaded innocent to all the charges.The fire killed Heriberto Felicano, 34, his wife Sonia Hernandez, 32, and their two daughters, Maria, 13, and Sonia, 12, as well as an 11-year-old niece Glorimar Santiago. All five were trapped by the fire in their third-floor apartment.Authorities maintain that Hilton set the deadly fire to get back at her son’s ex-girlfriend, who lived in the house with the couple’s two children. They survived the blaze, but the five others in the building died.Hilton was arrested three days after the fire. If convicted she faces up to 15 years in prison on each of the five counts of second-degree murder.The case had been bogged down on several appeals, while Natola has been battling prosecutors over which of Hilton’s statements can be used at her trial, but a statement Hilton made to a female court officer in Lynn District Court following her arraignment on March 1, 1999 has been suppressed.Hilton has been held at Framingham State Prison for Women awaiting the fate of her case since her arrest.