A D.C. jury has heard closing arguments and has begun deliberations in a trial which will determine the fate of 31-year-old Jorida Davidson, who stands accused of hitting Kiela Ryan with her SUV in Dupont Circle and then fleeing the scene last October. Davidson has been charged with voluntary manslaughter, which carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.

On the evening of October 7, Ryan had been celebrating her 25th birthday, when she was struck while attempting to exit her own parked car along the 1300 block of Connecticut Avenue NW around 1:35 a.m. (Davidson allegedly abruptly crossed two lanes on Connecticut Avenue in order to avoid the Avenue’s tunnel.) Ryan was reportedly thrown about ten feet in the collision, and was pronounced dead at George Washington Hospital at 5:04 a.m., nearly three-and-a-half hours after the incident occurred. Hours later, police located a black Lexus SUV at a Chevy Chase apartment building which, thanks to the tip of a cyclist who witnessed the accident, belonged to Davidson.

During the trial, Davidson’s attorneys have been making the argument that she had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder due to a childhood spent in “war-torn Albania,” a condition which flared up after hitting Ryan and led her to flee the scene of the accident. Prosecutors claim Davidson was simply drunk.