Amy sensor hit and run trial

At trial, her stepdaughter Brittani testified that Amy Senser only came forward only after Brittani — angry that some people had speculated she was the driver — threatened to go to authorities. Amy Senser testified that the night of the crash, she went to meet her daughters and their friends at a Katy Perry concert at St Paul's Xcel Energy Center, and had part of a glass of wine at a nearby restaurant before going inside.

After about 90 minutes, suffering from a headache, she left, intending to have her husband pick up the girls. Popular: The trial was closely followed in Minnesota because Joe Senser was a star tight end for the Vikings football team in the s and now owns a chain of restaurants. As she was driving home, she changed her mind and decided to return to St Paul.

Shortly after turning onto a freeway exit ramp in a construction area in Minneapolis, Senser said she felt a jolt at the front of her Mercedes-Benz SUV. She said she was looking to the left at the time, and thought she had hit an orange construction barrel or a pothole. She said she didn't realize a man had been hit until seeing news reports the next day. But prosecutors said Senser had to have known she hit someone, and highlighted numerous texts that were deleted from Senser's cellphone the night of the crash and the next day.

The Sensers settled a civil lawsuit filed by the Phanthavong family shortly after the criminal trial ended. Mr Nelson said Amy Senser got the tattoo of Phanthavong's name after the guilty verdict 'as a reminder to carry him with her.

It's just not in her. After the sentencing, attorney Jim Schwebel said the Phanthavong family accepted Senser's remorse and felt that the sentence was fair. Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Ex-NFL star's sobbing wife sentenced to 41 months prison for killing man in hit-and-run as she reveals she tattooed victim's name on her wrist Amy Senser was found guilty of leaving the scene of an accident and failure to report an accident and sentenced to 41 months in jail Cried while apologizing to the victim's family in court By Daily Mail Reporter Published: GMT, 9 July Updated: GMT, 10 July e-mail 17 View comments.

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Lindsay Lohan reveals her natural complexion in a make-up free selfie I told them, because I knew … that she had to take responsibilities for what she'd done. Amy Senser's defense lawyers countered that Brittani Senser was actually angry that the hit-and-run had caused damage to her career, saying that the year-old was more upset about losing a charity singing gig than about Phanthavong's death. Brittani Senser also said that she is unsure how truthful her stepmother has been throughout the trial.

It's hard to believe that you didn't know you hit something. I don't know if she knew she'd hit a person. It's hard to believe from the evidence that she didn't know she hit something. In another outburst, Senser asked members of the media "Why don't you get a life? Senser played four years with the Vikings in the early s before a knee injury ended his career.

Paul-area restaurant chain, and has worked as a Vikings radio color commentator. The tears continued as Brittani Senser was called to testify. But they were shed by the witness, who sobbed as the judge's clerk asked her to say and spell her name. She regained her composure, though, and said under questioning by Russell that she's a singer, but she also works at her dad's restaurant in Roseville a couple of days a week. She was 5 when her father married Amy Olson, she said, and said she lived with them pretty much full time when she entered high school.

She said that her father had the Mercedes, a Lexus and a Chevrolet Tahoe and that she usually drove the Lexus and her stepmother drove the Tahoe. But he would occasionally have Brittani drive the Mercedes because he thought it was safer and she thought it was easier to drive.

She said she had spent the evening of the crash, a Tuesday, rehearsing at home with two backup singers they had a show the coming Saturday and then she took her daughter to a Dairy Queen in southwest Minneapolis for a treat. She described what she considered odd behavior on the part of her father and stepmother in the days after the crash. She said she got a text message from her dad Aug. But she said that later, when she saw media accounts that investigators were still trying to determine who had been driving, she was worried that suspicion would fall on her.

She said that the week after the crash, she asked her father if Amy had been taken into custody yet. She testified that she figured the State Patrol knew her stepmother had been driving, but when she heard media accounts saying nobody had been picked up, she decided to take it up with her stepmother. That prompted the text to her mother saying it wasn't fair for her not to come forward and, the next day, the call to Nelson with her ultimatum. DNT Minute podcast.

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