California Highway Patrol officer Tomiekia Johnson was convicted Monday of murdering her husband more than two years ago.

As the verdict was read, Johnson collapsed and fell below the desk where she was sitting with her attorney. Her condition was unknown, but paramedics were called and a stretcher was brought to Judge Robert Perry's ninth-floor courtroom, which was cleared.

Outside the courtroom, Johnson's mother was sobbing and yelling, and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies took position to keep the families of the victim and defendant separated.

The verdict comes after Johnson tearfully testified Friday that she and her husband, Marcus Lemons, were struggling over her gun when it accidentally went off the night of Feb. 21, 2009.

"I was not trying to kill Marcus. I would never try to hurt him," she said in court, weeping. "He always hit me."

Johnson and her husband were having drinks at a T.G.I. Friday's restaurant in Compton before they got into an argument, Johnson told the jury.