[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...

[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.