Mallard gets 60 years

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[dennis1x]

not eligible for parole for 30.

[MEG33]

It did not meet the requirements legally for the death penalty to be considered.It was a felony murder not a capital murder.

[Jeff Head]

Spot on bro.

[FixitGuy]

Not to be abusive, but Chante needs to be impailed on sharp glass and left to bleed to death while others "party" around her.

No other way to teach her the full impact of her sadistic actions.

Too much emphasis on drugs which does not absolve her of total responsibility.

She has 60 years to whine about fate!

[A_perfect_lady]

What bugs me here is people saying "don't throw her life away too!" I want to say, folks, no one's "throwing her life away." That is, we aren't killing her (regrettably.) She'll be in prison for a long while, but her life is hardly thrown away. She'll have books, opportunities to take classes, she'll have human interaction, structure to her life, a chance to dry out, work, recreation, family visits... and will get out probably at 52. This is hardly the end of her life. My mother is 56. She just bought a Harley-Davidson. She recently started selling Pampered Chef . She's planning a trip to Hawaii next summer. Mallard is getting kid glove treatment, as far as I can see. Really, left up to me, she'd never see the light of day again, so...

[GladesGuru]

Arguably, Texas needs a recreational, non-commercial season for the taking of lawyers.

One good reason for such a season is that under the Separation of Powers doctrine, a lawyer ( a member of the Judiciary by definition) can't serve in the Legislative branch of the government.

But I am sure that the Texas Legislature is full of lawyers.

[Jeff Head]

Workin' real hard at doing my part to keep America strong bro...I know you are too.

Sounds like we were both raised that way...and there's nothing more fitting than passing on a good, rightous heritage.

"I hope Neal Young will remember" that!

[MEG33]

I saw an interview of the defense lawyer who thinks the club video showing her partying one week after the accident greatly affected the jurors and accounted for the harsh sentence.I guess one needs to be in the courtroom to catch the jurors reaction.

[SandRat]

Oh, the New York Times wishes.

So too, The LA Times, the Washington Post, CNN, PBS, Barbara Striestand, Phil Donahue, Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, Sean Penn, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Terry MacCauliff, Hillery, Daschle, Boxer, Pelosi, Rangle, Waters, MacDermitt, PM Schroeder, PM Chirac, PM Cretian, Castro, Glorius Leader InDeDung (sorry I couldn't resist that last one)..... but need I go on?

I think you get the picture.

[Jeff Head]

She threw her own life away...she did it the moment she determined in her own heart and mind to leave that man embedded in her windshield until he died and then to try and dispose of his body like it was so much trash.

No whining, no crying, no excuse is going to make up for that. I would have had more compassion on her if at any time she had faced that reality herself and freely admnitted to it and left off all of the Bravo Sierra about her victimhood and how bad she has it. She finally said those words a little at the sentencing...and it is for God to decide if she was sincere...as a society the State of Texas had to gauge her actions against the reality of the finality to Mr. Briggs and his family. Well, now, thanks to those twelve jurors, that awful reality is staring her square in the face, as it should.

She got exactly what she deserved, and could have stood a larger dose IMHO.

Regards.

[MEG33]

If it makes you feel any better one lawyer said she wouldn't get parole approved for more than the 25 years.He said 40!I have no clue as to the accuracy of his prediction.

[Texas Mom]

Specifically, the drug “ecstasy,” which Ms. Mallard testified she took, blocks a person’s ability to access long-term memories, such as who to call or what to do in an emergency, Mr. Wimbish said. "

She had the ability to call her friend and tell her to come and get her, then have her drive all over town looking for and calling for her boyfriend, and she didn't have the ability to call 911 to help this man? She was calling for help alright. Help for herself to cover it up.

[Jeff Head]

Bingo. Thus the nature of the sentence...and a well deserved one too.

[A_perfect_lady]

Oh, I'm with you 100%. I'm just saying that 25 years in prison isn't death. But if Meg is right, she may not get parole till she's 67. And I'm okay with that!

[Jeff Head]

I think she'll be up for parole after 25 (when she's 52) but am not sure she'll get it.

I'd prefer 67, but even at 52, after 25 years she will have experienced some sense of what she relegated another family to.

Best Fregards.

Jeff

[Lijahsbubbe]

If the parole board isn't sure what to do with her, they could have her serve her sentence half in the cell and half out.

[wayne_shrugged]

She would have gotten 600 years or the death penalty if she had been white and the victim black.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the ACLU and the omnipresent Gloria ALL-RED would have been right down there stumping for a hate crime charge if the races had been reversed.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I still say it would have made a big difference if the genders would have been reversed.

[dsc]

“It didn’t happen because she’s an evil, horrible person,”

Skyewze me? What other kind of person does evil, horrible things?

And even if she wasn't before, surely doing an evil, horrible thing makes her one.

Hangin's too good for her.

[Porterville]

This is a heavy sentence, but she was a nurse, and she did let him die. I thought she'd get 10-15 years on man slaughter. I would hate to screw up in Texas.