You be the Judge: What is the appropiate punishment for something like this?

[Dis]

she sounded genuine to me

she was drunk and on ectasy. You can't expect her to do the right thing in those circumstances.

though I agree her actions after she sobered up were very bad.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Sava
if she had hit someone you loved, you might be singing a different tune

Personally, I think drunk-driving is murder. You willfully and knowingly intoxicate yourself. Then you get behind the wheel and kill someone. I'd give drunk drivers who kill people the death penalty.

I agree totally with Sava on this. The woman in this case also had lots of time to help this man. This just makes me sick, I can just imagine the terror the man must have felt as he knew he was dying and that the woman would not help him. That woman should be hit by a car and left to die so that she can flee what that man flet before he died.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Dissident
I kind of feel sorry for her.

Did you hear her crying? She obviously feels remorse about this.

They really should give her the mininum sentence.

Yes I know, I can't resist women crying. I can't explain it.

Yeah right. The woman covered the crime up, and she had lots of time for the drugs to wear off that she would have know that a man was stuck in her car windshield and that he needed help or would die yet she decided to ignore his crys for help. She should get the book thrown at her for what she did to that man.

[The diplomat]

What did people think of the closing statements at the end of the sentencing phase?

I think the prosecution went a bit too far when they hinted that she ran over the guy on purpose. Granted, she should not have been driving while under the influence of alcohol, marijuana and ecstasy, but hitting the guy with her car was unintentional. Of course what she did later, ignoring his cries for help and leaving him to die, and continuying to take marijuana, that is unaceptable.

The defense also made some really poor arguments. To say that she is a good person because she was a nice person in high school who never got into trouble, is completely irelevant. Her behavior in high school has nothing to do with the facts of the case. And, the argument they gave that she is mentally sane because she was able to get a job, is also utterly irelevant to the case. The fact that she was able to go to college and then get a job, has nothing to do with the facts of the case.
The argument that driving under the influence is no big deal because it is just a class B misdeamenor, is ridiculous. The main fact of the case is that she killed someone because she was driving under the influence of alcohol, marijuana and X. So, to say that driving under the influence is no bid deal is preposterous. Lastly, to say that caring for patients while stoned is not a threat to the patients because nobody ever complained about it, is ridiculous. It is wonderful that none of her patients got hurt as a result of her drug usage. But to take care of patients while stoned is utterly reckless, dangerous and irresponsible!

[Boris Godunov]

The jury has spoken:

60 years in prison.

[MrFun]

Isn't it obvious?

Life in prison without parole.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by MrFun
Isn't it obvious?

Life in prison without parole.

*points to previous post*

[monolith94]

I was watching her cry on the news, and I just couldn't bear to watch it - the whole fücking situation is just too sad for me to even think about.

[SlowwHand]

She'll do 20.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
The jury has spoken:

60 years in prison.

50 and 10. AND they run concurrently. That means 50. She will be elgible for parole in 25 years. She will be 52 years old. That is BS. They should have given her LWOP.

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
I can't see that as murder. Manslaughter, yeah, but how can this be murder?

What the f*ck?

Seriously - what planet are you on?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


*points to previous post*

oops

[Zylka]

Oh, here's a nice one

"She is not the monster that police and prosecutors are making her out to be," said Mike Heiskell, Mallard's attorney. "She was simply a frightened, emotionally distraught young woman who had an accident, panicked and made a wrong choice."

Heiskell said his client is only guilty of failing to stop and render aid to a man she hit, not murder. But she did in fact stop! When she got home and parked the car in her garage, with the victim, Gregory Biggs, still stuck in the windshield!

What did she do next? Did she call an ambulance? Call the police? Try to help Gregory Biggs? No, she HID the car in her garage, went inside, and had SEX with her boyfriend!

According to Police, Chante J. Mallard, 25, waited for two days for Biggs to die, ignoring the pleas for help coming from her garage.

Biggs, whose body was found in a park on October 27, suffered cuts and broken legs but had no internal injuries that would have caused his death, said the medical examiner's office.

But Mallard, on the advise of her friends, chose to let Biggs first die in her garage, before dumping his body in a nearby park. Police has no leads in the crime until someone tipped them off last week.

According to what Mallard told investigators, she returned to the garage several times to see if Biggs had died, and ignored his pleas for help.



I will weep for her always

[MrFun]

Truly a terrible way for the guy to die.

[Pekka]

Man that's just plain evil.