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Mar 8, 2018

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Apr 23, 2012

Amy Senser trial opens; stepdaughter to testify for prosecution

Amy Senser will testify in her own defense at her vehicular homicide trial. Her stepdaughter, though, will testify for the prosecution. In opening arguments, a prosecutor said the stepdaughter - worried that she was becoming a suspect - demanded that Amy Senser tell authorities who was driving the SUV that struck and killed a man on an I-94 exit ramp last summer. Amy Senser says she was unaware her vehicle had hit the man.

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Amy Senser will testify in her own defense at her vehicular homicide trial. Her stepdaughter, though, will testify for the prosecution. In opening arguments, a prosecutor said the stepdaughter - worried that she was becoming a suspect - demanded that Amy Senser tell authorities who was driving the SUV that struck and killed a man on an I-94 exit ramp last summer. Amy Senser says she was unaware her vehicle had hit the man.

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Prosecutors called two dozen people to the witness stand this week before handing the case over to Amy Senser's defense team Friday afternoon. KSTP reports Senser is expected to take the stand Monday and the jury could begin deliberations by Tuesday. Before adjourning for the weekend, the judge warned jurors he plans to sequester them once deliberations begin.

Jurors in the Amy Senser trial saw photos of the man who was struck and killed on a highway exit ramp last August. Senser has admitted driving the SUV that hit the man but says she did not realize she had struck anyone. Also Tuesday, Senser's stepdaughter testified the family kept her in the dark about the incident for days.

Amy Senser's vehicular homicide trial is set to begin next week. In an afternoon of pre-trial sparring, Senser pleaded not guilty to a charge alleging gross negligence. The judge refused to dismiss two of the charges against her. Senser says she was unaware that her SUV had struck someone on the night a man was killed while putting gas in his car on an I-94 exit ramp.

Former Vikings star Joe Senser testified at his wife's vehicular homicide trial Wednesday, saying Amy Senser told him she'd hit a construction cone or barrel. After seeing news reports that a man was struck and killed on an I-94 exit ramp, Joe Sener says his wife told him she had used that ramp but was not involved in the incident. Earlier, an expert testified that 45 messages were deleted from Amy Senser's phone the day after the hit-and-run.

Amy Senser will be sentenced Monday morning in a hit-and-run accident that killed a Roseville man last August on a freeway exit ramp in Minneapolis. In May, a jury convicted the wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser of two felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide. Prosecutors want the judge to send Senser to prison for nearly five years. Her defense attorney has asked for probation.

Deliberations could begin Tuesday afternoon and jurors will be sequestered until they reach a verdict. A retired State Patrol investigator was the last witness to testify Tuesday morning in Sener's criminal vehicular homicide trial. She is charged with three counts in the death of Anousone Phanthavong. The Roseville man was standing by his car on a freeway exit ramp in Minneapolis last August when he was struck and killed.

Deliberations are underway in her criminal vehicular homicide trial. The defense rested its case Tuesday morning and each side delivered their closing arguments. Twelve men and women will now decide whether Amy Senser knew she hit a person on a Minneapolis freeway exist ramp last August. The jury will be sequestered until a verdict is reached.

Jurors are considering three felony charges of criminal vehicular homicide against Amy Senser. There's also a misdemeanor charge of careless driving. A key point of contention is whether Senser knew she had struck a person on a highway exit ramp in Minneapolis last August.

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