Overview

• Both sides rested Wednesday and Hartsfield did not testify, with the Chambers County jury delivering a guilty verdict the same afternoon.
• Investigators highlighted phone data showing steps, app use and deleted messages that conflicted with Hartsfield’s claim she slept as her husband’s blood sugar crashed.
• Prosecutors pointed to messages and a transfer of Joseph Hartsfield’s Apple Legacy Contact key to her phone, along with a video shared shortly before 911 was called.
• Medical witnesses described repeated hypoglycemia and a nurse’s belief glucose was being counteracted; the medical examiner cited insulin toxicity as the cause of death but left the manner undetermined.
• The defense stressed investigative gaps, including insulin pens found near the bed that were not collected, and prosecutors introduced past allegations—an alleged arson, a claimed murder plot, and a 2018 shooting now under renewed review—with no new charges reported.