WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court declined last Monday to take an appeal from a woman convicted of using a fortuneteller to arrange the murder of a teen-ager who spurned her daughter.

The court refused to take that Texas case and another one involving federal jurisdiction in murder-for- hire plots.

Dora Cisneros, the Brownsville wife of a prominent surgeon, had been found guilty of state murder charges in the 18-year-old's death, but the conviction was overturned on appeal.

She was then tried in federal court because prosecutors said the hit men she hired came from Meuco.

In appealing her federal murder-for-hire conviction and life sentence, Cisneros said there was no proof of foreign travel or use of non-American facilities, arguments used to justify federal jurisdiction.

The victim, Joey Fischer, had broken up with Cisneros' daughter in 1992 after the two high school students dated just a few weeks. Cisneros asked her fortuneteller to put a curse on the teen, police said. Later, prosecutors said she asked for the woman's help in having him killed.