Mallard gets 60 years

dallas morning news ^

[dennis1x]

not eligible for parole for 30.

[Michael.SF.]

By not testifying during the trial she avoided having to confess the fact that she had sex with some guy while the man was dying in her garage.

Get out!

Are you serious?

Did that come out in the trial at all?

[fml]

Why? 20 years for letting someone bleed to death stuck in your windshield, your certainly nicer than I am.

[SwatTeam]

2. He wasn't subject to Texas justice.

Bingo

[Sir Gawain]

I don't know if she's evil, but I've heard reports that the way her secret came out was at a party, where she giggled, "I killed a white man." This sort of remark does not earn mercy points with me.

If that's true, then yeah she deserved more than she got.

[SerpentDove]

Yeah, but thirty years is a helluva long time.

[night reader]

She left him in her car to die. Doing the deed - hitting him - is one thing. She left him to die. That cinches it for me.
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Worse than leaving him in the car to die. If she had ditched the car at the scene and run away, he could at least have been found and perhaps saved. If she had dragged him out of the car and left him on the side of the road, he might have had a chance. But she deliberately took the dying man to a place where he had NO chance of rescue. She concealed him from any possibility of succor. It was murder in the first, alright!

As to the mitigating circumstance of being impaired by her intake of marijuana, and ecstacy, and driving while intoxicated ... those are not mitigants but should have been separately prosecuted with additional penalties piled on.

Somewhere between 99 to life with no possibilty of parole sounds about right for her. But what did the Texas taxpayer ever do to deserve being hit up for her food, clothing, shelter, and medical expenses? More I think of it, the better "Ole Sparky" sounds.

[Michael.SF.]

You seem to know the area. A question if I may. From the point where she hit him, to where her house is, are there any fire stations, police stations or hospitals, that a person in the area would obviously know about?

[MEG33]

Do you think the DA can charge felony murder if it doesn't meet the definition?!Intent is not a requirement. Death that occurs as the result of a felony is called felony murder.The felony was failure to stop and render aid.I believe kidnapping was involved because she closed him into her garage where there was no escape.She not only failed to render aid as in a hit and run,she made it impossible for him to get aid.The Supreme court approves if you don't.

[Paulus Invictus]

What happens to the boy friend who helped her dispose of the body? I haven't heard about his crime or punishment. Let's hope he gets a long sentence too.

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"What happens to the boy friend who helped her dispose of the body? I haven't heard about his crime or punishment. Let's hope he gets a long sentence too."

He received less than one decade (eight or nine years). Eligible for parole in probably four or five years.

[SwatTeam]

I watched her testimony during the penulty phase and it seemed to me that she spent the first 10 minutes or so trying to work up a cry. I closed my eyes and listened to just her voice and I think she was very well rehearsed in what she said. I personally could not hear any genuine remorse in her voice, her words yes, but not in her voice.

[fml]

Yeah, but we're talking about Kennedy Catholics.

[Lijahsbubbe]

A lot of people have brought up the hate crime issue.

How different do you think this trial would have been if it was a man who hit a woman and left her to die in his windshield?

[NautiNurse]

Early on, I thought they should have charged her with kidnapping. In Texas, is kidnapping and murder a capital crime? If so, seems she already received a gift from the prosecution.

[MEG33]

10 yrs and he testified against her.He was dead by the time she found the boyfriend.

[hole_n_one]

Go back to DU,Joe

While I disagree 100% with everything AZ Joe has posted with respect to this thread, there is no cause for such a response from you......it's intellectually lazy and nothing but a cheap shot.

Save it for those that warrant it.

[annyokie]

Thanks for the info. The who incident happened when I was a toddler.

[BossLady]

Interesting about restrictions since people joke how many people are put to death in Texas. I have no idea about the laws there so I like to get different perspectives.

Was malice of any kind considered in this case?? I mean the poor guy suffered for two days and she did nothing. (Two days would indicate she would have come down from her drunk and high state to realize she had really messed up)

[1066AD]

He received probation, became a United States Senator and serves to this day.
Best justice money can buy, influence & a complicit press helps too.

[pepperhead]

I heard that too on Court TV. I don't think the judge allowed that testimony in. There was one other person who was involved in all this and her testimony was all over the place. Neither side called her, she might be the source of the sex story.