Mallard gets 60 years

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[dennis1x]

not eligible for parole for 30.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

You should volunteer to serve part of her sentence. I hope you do.

[A_perfect_lady]

Duck, duck, goose... and hers is cooked! What's good the guy in the windshield is good for the woman with the garage door remote.

[Jeff Head]

The accident, where she hit the guy was the defining moment. Had she rendered any type of assistance, I would agree.

But she didn't. She callouslly let him bleed out in her windshield, locked in her garage where no one could help him. When she did that, she effectively shot him in the head...only he suffered more.

She deserves everything she got...and I wish it had been longer because that guy she killed did get a life sentence...and so did his family. He ain't coming back.

She may get out at 52...we'll see.

[Az Joe]

It does not meet the legal definition of murder. She was overcharged.

[exDemMom]

I wish they'd give her the chair, followed by the firing squad, followed by hanging, followed by the guillotine.

And if that didn't do the job, then what?

[Sally'sConcerns]

It met the legal definition of murder in Texas and that's where she did the crime.

[Michael.SF.]

I wish they'd give her the chair, followed by the firing squad, followed by hanging, followed by the guillotine.

Geeze, are your priorities out of order. The proper order would be:

Hanging - Opps, who cut the rope boys?
Firing squad - OK boys, aim low.
Guillotine - Damn, dullest blade I ever saw. Somebody fetch a band aid.
Ol' Sparky - Flip that switch again and crank up the juice this time. Three's the charm I always say.

I mean if she is going to suffer, why be half assed about it?

[Jeff Head]

Apparently in Texas it did...and rightly so.

[MeekOneGOP]

Her actions immediately following the accident don't suggest she had a shred of humanity or 'good' in her.

I agree wholeheartedly. I was hoping for more years.

She did a pretty good 'job' in her testimony in the part where she said she was sorry for the pain she had caused the Biggs family. She sounded sincere in that part. I think that may have bought some sympathy, but who knows? I think a lot of her stuff on the stand was staged to help get her a lighter sentence. After all, what she did was indefensible for her lawyer. Mission Impossible.

However, ALL of the jurors will carry that image of Biggs body in the park for the rest of their life. That kept them from going on the lighter side of the penalty I bet.

[wimpycat]

It does not meet the legal definition of murder. She was overcharged.

Ummm...I think Texas prosecutors and a Texas judge understand Texas murder laws and precedents a little bit better than you.

[vikingchick]

Oh wow. ROFL!

[Centurion2000]

That's it???? What are they saying about it in TX???

This is one Texan that is saying she should have got the needle, gas chamber or chair.

Get a rope for that b$%ch.

[MEGoody]

"No priors and her crime was not the same as, for example, what the abortion doctor killer did."

True. The abortion doctor killer just shot the doc. This lady hit the man, the let him suffer while he slowly bled to death stuck into the windshield of her car.

Sorry, but if we are going to measure the 'badness', her actions were worse in my view.

[Michael.SF.]

Criminals don't get to chose their juries.

Are you sure?

[LibKill]

That's it???? What are they saying about it in TX???

Unfortunately, we do not have 'Life without parole' in Texas.

I hope we will get that fixed some day.

Personally I wish she would be burned at the stake, but Texas law has no such provision. Also, the death penalty has many restrictions on it, too many in my opinion.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I felt that she was tried for two crimes in one case. Hitting the person with her car: was that intentional? If not, it was vehicular manslaughter. I think she should have been tried for that, and then tried for the acts that followed, separately.

[MeekOneGOP]

It does not meet the legal definition of murder. She was overcharged.

Tell that to Mr. Biggs family.

[oreolady]

Go back to DU,Joe

[JoeSchem]

Horrible act but too much time. I was against anything over 20 years. She is certain to appeal and get it reduced. I hope she does.

I'll go for just twenty hours, so long as she spends it bleeding to death with her head in a car windshield all alone in a locked garage.

. . . But geez, that would be cruel, wouldn't it?

[null and void]

. . But geez, that would be cruel, wouldn't it?

Indeed. You'd have to come in and appologize every few hours. Where's your humanity, man???