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A three-judge appeals panel has ruled Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who illegally downloaded and shared two-dozen songs online more than six years ago, owes record companies $222,000 for copyright violations, the Associated Press reports.

A Hennepin County District Court judge said Amy Senser must serve at least two-thirds of her sentence behind bars for the fatal 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 on two felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide.

Before Amy Senser's guilty verdicts were delivered in court last week, jurors asked the judge to read a note in court. It said, "We believe, she believed she hit a car or a vehicle and not a person." The note was entered into the case docket, but not read out loud.

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.

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.

The Associated Press is reporting that a settlement was announced Friday by attorneys for family of Anousone Phanthavong, who died when Senser hit him near a Minneapolis freeway exit ramp last August. Terms were not disclosed.

The jury spent more than a dozen hours Wednesday behind closed doors without reaching a verdict. They have to decide whether Amy Senser knew she hit and killed someone with her SUV last August. She is facing three felony charges of criminal vehicular homicide. Deliberations began Tuesday afternoon.