The wife of former Viking Joe Senser turned herself in to authorities this morning and faces a charge for criminal vehicular operation. She says she was driving the vehicle when Anousone Phanthavong was killed.

Amy Senser's attorney filed an appeal Friday over Senser's conviction in the hit-and-run death of Anousone Phanthavong. The 33-page filing in Hennepin County District Court alleges nearly a dozen "abuses of discretion" by the trial judge and seeks her release from jail during the appeals process. Senser was sentenced last month to 3 1/2 years at the Minnesota women's prison in Shakopee.

The wife of former Viking Joe Senser turned herself in to authorities this morning and faces a charge for criminal vehicular operation. She says she was driving the vehicle when Anousone Phanthavong was killed.

The judge has released photos and hundreds of text messages shown to jurors during the trial that ended last Thursday. Amy Senser was convicted on two counts of criminal vehicular homicide for the accident that killed Anousone Phanthavong last August. Senser will be sentenced on July 9.

Family members of Anousone Phanthavong say he was a peaceful man who would have forgiven Amy Senser. At her sentencing hearing, a tearful Senser apologized to the family and hugged Phanthavong's mother, saying she never saw Phanthavong on the night she struck and killed him with her SUV.

Amy Senser was charged with felony criminal vehicular homicide in the Aug. 23 death of Anousone Phanthavong, whom she struck and killed on a I-94 ramp in Minneapolis.

Three people called 911 moments after Anousone Phanthavong was hit and killed last August on a freeway exit ramp in Minneapolis. Last week, Amy Senser was convicted of criminal vehicular homicide and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 9.

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.