The fate of a woman who ran over her cheating husband in a hotel parking lot is in the jury's hands. The big question -- did Clara Harris do it deliberately?

Defense attorneys say it was an accident but prosecutors say a wife turned her Mercedes-Benz into a 4,000-pound murder weapon when she ran over her husband after finding him with another woman.

Lawyers Wednesday delivered closing arguments in the four-week trial, after which jurors began deliberations in the case against Clara Harris, 45.

Harris ran over her 44-year-old orthodontist husband, David Harris, in a suburban hotel parking lot last summer after confronting him with his lover. She says the death was an accident and that she ran over her husband just once.

Prosecutors say the attack was intentional and David Harris was run over at least twice. At the very least, prosecutor Mia Magness said Clara Harris' reckless driving resulted in her husband's death, so she should be held accountable for at least manslaughter.

As she began her closing argument, Magness urged jurors to strongly consider murder and not to even consider the lesser charges.

"As a group if you believe it's murder and two of you think it's a lesser offense, you do not have to compromise to accommodate them," she said.

"I want this jury to acquit her," defense attorney George Parnham told the panel toward the end of his hourlong presentation. "I believe the state has failed in convincing you beyond a reasonable doubt Clara Harris intentionally murdered her beloved husband, David."

Parnham called David Harris' extramarital lover, Gail Bridges, a "homewrecker" who should share blame for what happened the evening of July 24 after Bridges and David Harris had a tryst at a hotel.

Clara Harris sobbed during much of the closing arguments, especially when Parnham described a private investigator's videotape that recorded Harris, with her stepdaughter in the car, turning in circles in the hotel's parking lot.

"You saw Clara Harris on the stand," Parnham said. "You saw Clara Harris during the course of this trial. Do you think those are rehearsed tears? ... Do you believe if for one moment Clara Harris intended to kill David Harris she would have had his daughter in the car?"

"I'm not up here to vilify the memory of David Harris ... but there were some bad choices, folks," he said. "There were some bad decisions made here."

Clara Harris' stepdaughter, Lindsey Harris, who was a passenger in the car as her father was killed, also cried during the final remarks.

The victim's father, Gerald Harris Sr., gave Clara Harris a hug during a brief break between arguments and sat in an area of the courtroom reserved for the defendant's family.

Magness fired back in her closing argument.

"I am not going to stand before you and tell you in any way that I am trying to justify his affair," Magness said. "I know you understand the pain it caused the defendant and the pain she felt. ... You can't help but feel sympathy.

"But you know, the solution is to get divorced. David's bad judgment, his bad choices, shouldn't result in his death."

Various witnesses in the case testified the husband was run over three times -- or as many as five times. A defense expert testified David Harris only was hit once, though he did not interview any witnesses.

"Why are the number of run overs important?" Parnham asked the panel. "I guess if you have a number of run overs, you show a person in the rage of her life."

Magness recalled the several witnesses who gave similar accounts, except for minor conflicting details, that Clara Harris appeared to intentionally hit her husband.

"Each of them was consistent that it was at least two, and most of them told you it was three," Magness said.

"I might be able to concede that that initial impact was something that she couldn't have prevented. But when you run a person over again, again and again, your intent is to hurt him. Your intent is to kill him," Magness said.

"The fact that he had an affair does not justify her actions. The solution is -- get a divorce. David's bad judgment, his bad choices, shouldn't result in his death. For heaven's sake, if a man is cheating on you, do what every other woman in this county does -- take him to the cleaners. Take his house. Take his car. Take his kids. Take his respect in the community and you can make him wish he were dead. But you don't get to kill him," Magness told jurors. "If every time someone in this county was wronged or hurt or cheated on or lied to, and they got to react in this way, our population would be going way down."

In addition to murder and manslaughter, the jury also could consider the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide if it decides against the other two charges.

If convicted of murder, Clara Harris could face life in prison -- but her lawyers have indicated they would then lodge a "sudden passion" argument that could reduce the sentencing guidelines to two to 20 years in prison.