The prosecution rested its case Thursday in the murder trial of Clara Harris, who's accused of running over her husband in a hotel parking lot after finding him with another woman.

The defense is expected to begin presenting its case Thursday afternoon.

Clara Harris, 44, is charged with murdering her orthodontist husband, David Harris, 44, on the night of July 24 after a confrontation with him and his alleged mistress, Gail Bridges, in the lobby of the Hilton Nasa Clear Lake, Nasa Road 1, in Nassau Bay.

Prosecutors allege after her husband spurned her, Clara Harris intentionally ran him over numerous times with her Mercedes.

But the defense claims that it was an accident.

On Wednesday, Lindsey Harris, who was a passenger in the car, told jurors that her father pushed the other woman out of harm's way and pleaded with his wife to stop.

"He was really scared," Harris, 17, testified. "He was trying to get away and he couldn't."

"I knew she was mad -- just her face. It was red and she had this evil look," a composed Lindsey Harris told jurors as her stepmother sat with her hands covering her face.

"She was going for my dad. He tried to stop her. ... She was very determined," Lindsey Harris said.

The teenager said she screamed and tried to get out of the car, but it was traveling too fast.

"I just yelled, 'Stop! You're killing him!" she said.

Prosecutors said Clara Harris was enraged because David Harris chose his lover, Gail Bridges, over her. Bridges worked for him at his dental practice until Clara Harris, also a dentist, learned of the affair and fired Bridges.

The teenager said she partially blamed the affair on her stepmother's lack of attention to her father, but said she told her father he should not leave her stepmother for Bridges, whom she described as "the personification of evil."

Lindsey Harris testified her father was struck once and then her stepmother circled around and hit him two more times, never trying to avoid him. The teenager said she jumped out and hit her stepmother when the car finally stopped.

"I knew she had killed my dad," Lindsey Harris testified.

"She said, 'I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It was an accident.' She knew what she did and she wasn't sorry," she said.

Lindsey Harris also testified her stepmother decided to retire to have more time for her family and was going to have plastic surgery ""to make herself look very pretty so Dad would want her and not Gail."

"I was, like, 'Look, give up.' But she didn't want to," the girl said.

Under cross-examination by defense attorney George Parnham, she told jurors she has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her stepmother.

"Did you see your dad kick your stepmom?" Parnham asked.

"Yes," Lindsey replied.

"Where did he kick her?" Parnham asked.

"The leg. He said, 'It was over,'" Lindsey said.

"The marriage?" Parnham said.

"Yes," Lindsey replied.