[cherry]

Okay...now that she is found guilty , I will go out on a limb and say that the accident wasn't intentional, leaving him out there to die was, but in my heart I can understand panic....

how about 20 yrs?.....she can come out when she is fifty.....

[hunter112]

Nope, you get twenty years for shooting your drug dealer for selling you talcum powder. I agree, there was no deliberate intention to hit the man, but as soon as she realized he was alive, and dying due to her extreme negligence, she had an absolute duty to call for aid. If he had been saved, she would have gotten five years, tops. She's the one who chose a death sentence for her victim, and thus a life sentence for herself.

[al_c]

how about 20 yrs?.....she can come out when she is fifty.....

With a 20 year sentence, she could be out in 5-10. Life sentence, and she won't have a chance for 40 years.

[SauronOfMordor]

AP says "Jurors deliberated less than two hours in the case of Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, who faces life in prison on the conviction", so I'm thinking 1st degree

[Endeavor]

How about life? I can't understand "panic" as a defense for leaving a guy impailed upon your car in your garage, bleeding to death.

[OldFriend]

How about she never walks free again. NEVER EVER EVER.

[small_l_libertarian]

I agree that the original accident was probably not intentional and I, too, can understand panic. Even though it's wrong, sometimes your first reaction is to not want to get caught doing something awful.

HOWEVER, those of us who came equipped with a conscience would come to our senses and realize that another human being mustn't die to just so that we can hide our shame. I would venture that the vast majority of us (not just FReepers, all humans) would somehow help this poor man.

Chante is some kind of cold-hearted creature and we are all better off that she is going to be locked up for a good, long time. (Think of the damage she could do just by passing on her genes!)

Plus, she was apparently caught because she talked about this incident at a party and one of the party-goers called the police with a tip. What kind of a psycho is she that she would think that this story is appropriate cocktail-hour conversation?

There are some crazy, scary people in the world.

[Ima Lurker]

In the first place it was NOT an accident. She was driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.....that is no accident. Leaving him there to die is one of the sickest things I have ever heard of. I for one, can not at all understand her actions and I feel no sympathy for her or her pals who helped her.

[Sonny M]

I will go out on a limb and say that the accident wasn't intentional, leaving him out there to die was, but in my heart I can understand panic....

It was an accident, she was drunk, on a load of drugs, but the panic? Who the hell, in a panic, sits in the garage, calls up different friends to help her GET RID OF THE BODY OF A LIVING PERSON, she talked her friend out of calling for help, while the guy was still groaning (she did say she was sorry to him though.

This was way to methodical, she had the body, she briefly, made an attempt to remove him, gave up, got back in the car, drove back to her house, closed the garage door, apoligised, called friends, got one of them, waited till they came, worked out a plan to dispose of the body, waited till he died, then eventually dumped him in a park.

Does that sound like real panic to you?

[Smittie]

True justice would be slamming her fat **s through a windshield and leaving her, but since we don't have that option, she deserves to rot in jail for life.

Being drunk and stoned is no defense for murder which is what it became after she chose not to get help.

[ApesForEvolution]

How about she gets out when the victim comes back to life?

[kitkat]

***... leaving him out there to die was, but in my heart I can understand panic....***

I can understand panic, too. But there was a live human being in extreme agony, and that would have MADE me call for help for him. There's just no question in my mind that this female was more concerned about her own self-important interest than in the agony the victim was experiencing.

If she had not been found guilty, it would have been a signal to all hit and run drivers that they can get away with it.

[JesseHousman]

How about firing up Old Sparky?

What a worthless piece of human debris is this Chantel!

[Libertina]

Panic? While she went back into the house to have sex with her boyfriend? Your're kidding, right?