Susan Spencer (48 Hours correspondent)
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By choosing not to accept a plea agreement, she could be convicted of aggravated murder.
Mindy is being tried as an adult, so a guilty verdict could mean life.
By contrast, if the jury buys her story, she could simply walk out of here.
You gotta wonder what 12 people are thinking.
After 24 nerve-wracking hours... We do have a verdict.
...the nine-woman, three-man jury reaches a verdict.
With her boyfriend Dave at her side, Shirley braces herself, as does the family of Andy Barani.
Mindy is found guilty of the most serious charge, aggravated murder.
Not only did she kill him, the jury says, she planned it from start to finish.
The judge sentences her to life in prison with no chance of parole for 23 years.