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.

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.

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.

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.

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.