Associated Press Writer

HOUSTON (AP) - A husband was run down at least twice by the Mercedes-Benz driven by his wife, causing him to suffer a broken back, ribs, pelvis and jaw, a pathologist with the Harris County Medical Examiner's office testified Tuesday in the woman's murder trial.

Clara Harris, 44, is accused of intentionally and knowingly running over her husband in a hotel parking lot on July 24 after finding him with another woman.

The talk of the gruesome autopsy photos, which included pictures of 44-year-old David Harris' bloody clothes and his bruised and scraped up body, prompted his wife to shake and weep audibly. She sat with her hands over her face not looking at the photographs and at one point collapsed in tears on the table in front of her.

Jurors were excused and Harris was escorted from the courtroom. About 10 minutes after testimony resumed, Clara Harris broke down again.

State District Judge Carol Davies again removed jurors and harshly told Harris she would be removed as well if she couldn't sit quietly.

Prosecutors complained Clara Harris' emotional response was distracting jurors from the testimony of pathologist Dwayne Wolf.

"We're just not going to have a big show going on," Davies told Harris.

After telling the judge she wanted to stay in the courtroom, Harris cried out: "It's the first time I've heard what's happening!"

Defense attorney George Parnham quickly cupped his hand over her mouth and the judge told Harris there would be no more outbursts.

Wolf then told jurors David Harris was run over twice, once while he was face down and a second time while he was face up. He detailed numerous injuries to David Harris' head and back, showing photographs of the cuts, bruises and scrapes he suffered. Wolf also showed jurors a picture of a red mass on the side of Harris' head, telling them: "It's hard to recognize as an ear given the degree of tearing and the impact."

Prosecutor Mia Magness asked Wolf if the injuries he documented on David Harris' body were consistent with being "run over two separate, distinct times?"

"Correct," Wolf replied.

Under cross examination, Wolf admitted he didn't include his opinion that David Harris had been run over twice in his autopsy report. Defense attorney Dee McWilliams suggested David Harris could have been hit once, carried by the Mercedes and then rolled over.

"If that's what the autopsy indicated, I'd be testifying that way," Wolf responded. "I don't see this pattern of injuries fitting the scenario you're describing."

Earlier Tuesday, Webster Police Department Detective Julio Cesar Rincones testified in addition to David Harris' blood and bits of hair, palm and fingerprints were found on the car -- one palm print near the hood ornament and another near the driver's side fender.

Clara Harris admits she struck her husband with her car on July 24. The question before jurors is whether she intentionally killed him, Parnham said.

She claims she accidentally struck David Harris, who prosecutors say chose a woman he was having an affair with over his wife that night at the same hotel where the Harrises were married on Valentine's Day a decade earlier.

Besides the bloody evidence, jurors also heard the 911 calls to police that night. On one call, a man tells the operator: "We have a guy in a car who went nuts. He ran over somebody."

Jurors also looked at the windshield wiper blades which were ripped from the Lincoln Navigator belonging to David Harris' lover, Gail Bridges, and photographs showing deep scratch marks along the vehicle's sides and rear that were made by a key.

Rincones said he couldn't lift fingerprints from the wiper blades, but Parnham said his client committed the vandalism.

Also presented to jurors was a checkbook for a joint account the Harrises had that was found in the Mercedes. Written on the back inside flap of the checkbook was Bridges' name, address and phone numbers.

Parnham asked Rincones to read through the carbon copy receipts. Among checks signed by Clara Harris in the days leading up to her husband's death were two made out to a hair salon, a $100 check to a spa, a check to a nail salon, a check to a Baptist church for its building fund and a $1,277.25 check for a one-year membership to a gym.

Additional checks signed by her were to the investigative firm she hired to follow her husband, a lingerie store, a women's clothing store and two checks totaling $5,310 on the day of David Harris' death to the family's bank with a notation in the memo section reading: "Thomas Wiener."

Rincones said he didn't know Weiner's profession. Wiener's office said Tuesday he is a plastic surgeon, who specializes in breast augmentation.

If convicted, Clara Harris faces up to life in prison. If jurors determine she acted under the legal definition of sudden passion, they could consider a lighter sentence of two to 20 years in prison.