Guilty verdict in Texas

Cool Texan · 06-26-2003, 09:15 AM

Woman gets drunk, then drives home. During the drive, she hits a homeless man who becomes embedded head first in the windshield with severe injuries. She continues to drive home and pulls in her garage. The man is moaning and talking to her. She apologizes for what she did, but makes no effort to call 911, help the man, nothing...just leaves him there to die, which he did. She then, with help of 2 friends, dumps his body in a park. :depressed:

Verdict came in...guilty of murder. Horrible story...but at least justice still works.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/26/wi...ath/index.html

fish_on · 06-26-2003, 06:25 PM

too bad she can't get the chair click..zzzzzzzzz sizzzle sizzzle sizzzle sizzzle click

hntngirl · 06-26-2003, 06:58 PM

Ditto what fish_on said. But at least she will hopefully spend the rest of her life in prison.

Fast Water · 06-26-2003, 09:32 PM

Why can't she get the chair???

Sounds like a standard Texacution case to me.

:shocked:

24 on/ 48 off · 06-26-2003, 11:22 PM

I can't even believe there is controversy surrounding this case.

--spud-- :smile:

Big Dog · 06-27-2003, 07:56 AM

What she did was horrible. Life in prison I think is good justice in this case. I am all for the death penalty but not in this case. I fell this crime was bad but not heinous enough for the death penalty.

My .02

Big Dog

HOGGEMIN · 06-27-2003, 08:45 AM

How could letting someone die a slow painful death stuck to the windshield not be heinous enough!!!!!! Give the woman and her 2 friends the chair, an eye for an eye.

AtWorkALot · 06-27-2003, 09:08 AM

Sickening. Death penalty. If she was really remorseful, she would have made an effort to save the mans life. She let him die.

snowball · 06-27-2003, 11:55 PM

i've not seen much on this story.. but im glad shes going to jail.. the word pathetic comes to mind-

fish_on · 06-28-2003, 08:27 AM

she was not able to get death because it was not 1st degree murder, there was not premedatation or a other violent crime committed along with it. Of the 60 year sentence I bet she will be out in 15 or so.

Freighter Bait · 06-28-2003, 08:55 AM

I've been on the receiving end of drunk drivers more than once, not me personally, but son and parents is personal enough, me thinks. It does change the lives of the victims forever, when they survive. Can you tell me that an individual doesn't consider what could happen when they get behind a wheel of a 4000 lb. projectile. Getting pretty close to premeditated for me. Maybe 8 years as a volunteer EMT makes me over react a little on this subject. The fact that no aide was given, and covering up the evidence, shows that after the impact a willful planned series of events took place, with the death of the victim the final result. An eye for an eye.

Sturgeon Tom · 06-28-2003, 10:59 AM

She was high on booze, marjuana and ecstasy. The homless man she hit went through the windshield and ended up on the front passengers floor with his foot out the windshield.
I watched most of the trial and sentencening and all of her testimony. She never said he regaing conciseness or talked to her.
She clamed becouse of here state of mind (ecstasy) she didn't know what to do. Ya right.
After she thought she got away with it she went back to the same bar parting. She was really remorsefull wasn't she.
She should have gotten life which was possable not 60 years.
Her partners in crime got, if I rember correctly 9 and 10 years.