Amy Bessey appears in Las Vegas Justice Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Thursday, January 10, 2013. Bessey has been charged with attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit murder, and battery with a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm against her husband, Robert Bessey.
Published Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 | 7:58 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 | 2:29 p.m.
Jurors have begun deliberating the fate of a Las Vegas woman accused of conspiring with her brother and her son to kill her estranged husband for $250,000 insurance money.
Amy Bessey's defense attorney, Augustus Claus, told the jury on Tuesday that the evidence they've heard since Nov. 18 has been circumstantial.
He said prosecutors failed to prove Bessey had any responsibility for the shooting.
Bessey faces seven felony charges including conspiracy and attempted murder in the November 2012 shooting that wounded Robert Bessey as he drove on Interstate 15.
Prosecutors cited witnesses who described Bessey trying several times to hire other people to kill her husband before enlisting her ex-convict brother, Richard Pearson, and her son, Michael Bessey.
Pearson and Michael Bessey are due for trial together in February.
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