The trial began on Wednesday for the woman accused of murdering a Florida lottery winner.

Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore is charged with one count of first-degree murder for killing Abraham Shakespeare back in 2009. The trial against the 40-year-old woman began on Wednesday and is expected to last around two weeks.

Moore told the judge on Friday that she has been having medical problems while in custody.

"I was having anaphylactic shock, sir, because they gave me a medicine called Bactrim for a kidney infection," Moore told Judge Emmett Battles in court, as reported by ABC. "I had an allergic reaction to it, and my tongue swelled up really bad last night and they admitted me into the infirmary."

She claimed that the cuffs on her ankles caused her increased discomfort.

The prosecution for the case said that Moore scammed Shakespeare to give her around $1.5 million. She then fatally shot the man and buried his body in her own backyard. However, the defendant's lawyer said that the evidence doesn't lead to Moore and that it's mostly circumstantial.

"There are no eyewitnesses who can testify that Ms. Moore shot and killed Mr. Shakespeare or was present when he was shot and killed or had any part carrying out his murder," said Byron Hileman, Moore's lawyer, as reported by CBS.

Hileman added that there is no evidence that connects the gun used in the crime with the defendant.

In 2006, Shakespeare won around $30 million after playing the state lottery. After two years of spending the money and giving much of it away, Shakespeare befriended Moore. The prosecution in the murder trial stated that after the two met, Moore swindled the money from Shakespeare by telling him that his friends and family were taking advantage of the man. Moore allegedly said she was going to write a book about Shakespeare and soon became his financial advisor, giving her control over the last of his assets.

The state attorney will attempt to show that Moore took Shakespeare's money and created a company in his name with an attached bank account that he was not allowed to make withdrawals from. The prosecutors will also try to prove that Moore attempted to cover up the disappearance of Shakespeare in April 2009. His body was eventually discovered in January of 2010 under a concrete slab buried in the backyard of Moore's Hillsborough, Fla., home.

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