With suggestions like this, I don’t think it’s any wonder the woman didn’t provide help or go the police. If I accidently hit someone with a car and almost killed them in the process, I’d probably help and face the consequences. However, with many people around offering “KILL KILL” as the end all solution for everything, I can also understand why the women tried to cover it up
She needs to do prison time and everyone else needs the awareness that always shouting for more death and executions is pushing people right off the edge, making matters worse and not better.
Uh, no, that’s the whole point. If she’d stopped and gotten help for the guy, no one would be calling for harsh penalties. It’s the fact she didn’t that makes it a crime, not the fact of the accident itself.
The way it has happened now, I agree with you. But if she had stopped and had helped, the news would be like this “woman drinks and drives, hits man, who is lodged in her windshield and the man dies on the way to the hospital.”
It’s something people would be rightfully upset about as well and since there are always outraged shouts for a death penalty, I can see why people would hesitate and think twice about going to the police.
Then again, maybe I am just very touchy about the capital punishment in general
He could have survived, but what if he still hadn’t? Besides, if someone’s head is sticking through my window, his legs are bent over my car and the guy is bleeding, I wouldn’t really count on him surviving. For my decision it doesn’t matter if a medical examiner would come to a different conclusion after a careful examination. I’d be in panic and would need to reach a quick decision.
There simply are no guarantees and the guy may still have died, even if she had gotten help. I am leaning myself wide out of the window here, but I am convinced that in that case some people would still have demanded a death penalty. This is totally imho, but I think this mentality causes some people to act extremly stupid in life and death situations, just like this woman’s actions were stupid and cannot be excused.
My point: I want her to do time in prison and I want to have people chanting for years / decades of prison instead of electrical chairs.
No, no guarantees, though he probably would have been better off instead of bleeding to death in the car. I think this whole mess is a good indicator as to why the driver is a former nurse’s aide.
I remember the original reports of this incident and the part that amazed me was she had a friend come over and help her move the body after the man died. I was thinking if she had someone she trusted enough to help her get rid of a corpse, couldn’t she have called him a few days earlier when the victim was still alive?
There were reports that she wasn’t just drunk at the time of the accident. I recall her lawyer coming out and saying that she wasn’t responsible for her actions because she was on Ecstasy at the time. I’ve done E once or twice (ahem), and I can’t imagine being so out of it on it that I don’t realize that someone is bleeding to death.
OK, this weirds me out almost as much as the original crime. One woman (Miranda) had the fortitude to stand up and say that Mallard’s actions were wrong, and took it to the authorities. Now Miranda is a pariah to her friends. As reprehensible as the original crime was, that is still just a single woman who is somewhere between (take your pick) misguided and evil. However, it appears that her friends pretty much take her side!
Let’s just say I’m not planning on visiting Texas for a long, long time.
Well, for one thing, she wouldn’t be charged with murder. It would have been at the most intoxication manslaughter, and maybe not even that if it could be shown that he was stumbling around in the street and would have been hit by even a sober and careful driver. At any rate, intoxication manslaughter is a second degree felony, punishable by 2 to 20 years. Instead she kidnapped him and prevented him from any hope of medical care, and saddled herself with a murder charge instead, 5 to life. Ironically, she’d have been better off if she’d killed him outright, or he’d bounced off.
“FORT WORTH, Texas — Clete Jackson (search) didn’t know what to expect when he walked into the garage of his former lover, who was sobbing. He saw a man’s mangled body almost completely inside her car — head on the floorboard, torso in the air and a severed leg on the center console…”
The accomplice speaks today. Saw AP article on www.FOXNews.com
Well, in fairness to Jackson, he was trying to explain why it was an accident. What he meant was that it wouldn’t make sense for Chante to intentionally hit somebody she had never met with her car for no reason at all. Not that it matters.
Well…the lawyers are leading the witnesses to demonstrate that she didn’t murder this guy. She didn’t know him, she didn’t murder him, it was an accident.
She just failed to provide aid, which is legally much less of a crime.
It’s legal stuff, but does not reflect my opinions of the worthless bitch.
