Windshield death suspect back in jail
Posted on 03/09/2002 2:34:29 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Windshield death suspect back in jail
Bail raised to $250,000; FW woman taken into custody for third time
03/09/2002
FORT WORTH - A woman accused of hitting a man with her car and leaving him to die, entangled in her windshield, returned to jail Friday when a judge raised her bail from $10,000 to $250,000.
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Even if the bail is met, Ms. Mallard will spend the weekend in jail. Probation officers in charge of monitoring bond conditions cannot pick her up until Monday morning, said Lt. Mack West, jail supervisor.
Her bond conditions, which 371st District Judge James Wilson set during a hearing, include being under house arrest at her parents' Fort Worth home, wearing an electronic monitor, no driving, no alcohol use, and drug testing three times a week.
LAWRENCE JENKINS / DMN Dorothy Ballard (left) accompanies her daughter, Chante J. Mallard, to the court hearing in Fort Worth. |
Judge Wilson also placed a gag order on Ms. Mallard's lawyer and on prosecutors in the case. Her parents attended the hearing but declined to comment.
Ms. Mallard, a nurse's aide who was fired Thursday after the murder charge became public, sobbed in the courtroom and continually dabbed her eyes with a tissue before sheriff's deputies led her away.
During the hourlong hearing, defense attorney Mike Heiskell brought Ms. Mallard's parents and her brother, a lieutenant with the Fort Worth Fire Department, to testify about the former Girl Scout's willingness to attend future court proceedings.
"I guarantee you she's not going anywhere. She doesn't have anywhere to go and doesn't know where to go," Mr. Heiskell said, asking the judge to "look past the emotion and determine what is right and just."
But Assistant District Attorney Richard Alpert argued that the $10,000 bond Ms. Mallard posted Wednesday was insufficient and that she has an unstable work history and sought counseling only after she was charged in Mr. Biggs' death.
"It's no secret the community is outraged by her actions," Mr. Alpert said. "This defendant has friends who helped her cover up the crime."
Police said Ms. Mallard struck Mr. Biggs in October as he walked along U.S. Highway 287 near the Loop 820 split, and then drove home with him entangled in her windshield.
Although he was severely injured, Mr. Biggs, a former school bus driver and bricklayer who was homeless at the time of the accident, was not dead, police said. Ms. Mallard left him trapped in her car, which she hid in the garage of her home on the south side of Fort Worth, investigators said.
Police said that Ms. Mallard repeatedly apologized to the injured man, checking on him several times over a two- or three-day period, but that she never summoned help. After Mr. Biggs died, Ms. Mallard and at least one friend dumped his body in a nearby park, where he was found Oct. 27, police said.
A woman came to police in February, saying Ms. Mallard admitted to the crime at a party, police said. Investigators questioned Ms. Mallard and arrested her Feb. 26 on a felony charge of failure to stop and render aid.
Mrs. Mallard posted a $5,000 bond that day, but she was arrested a second time after police upgraded the charge to murder Wednesday. She was released that day after posting a $10,000 bond.
A trial date has not been set.
Police said Friday that they are continuing to investigate the case and are looking for anyone else who may have helped dump Mr. Biggs' body.
E-mail ncalaway@dallasnews.com
Hildebeast must be sorely jealous at this point.
Well, yeah, and that’s what I am saying. Obviously you did not understand my post.
That is food for thought.
But I haven't heard the county DA's comments about that allegation. I'd like to hear their response to that question myself. . .
As an aside, I recently watched archives of the news coverage of 9/11 as it was happening; I didn't see it as I was working in downtown DC that morning and was occupied with getting home safely. The quality of commentary ranged from superb to inane (one said that the fire in Tower 2 appeared to be going out, for example). It made me cry, too, seeing it all over again. We must never forget.
And I think if you go back to the initial news stories, FReepers were just as outraged when no races were mentioned.
I doubt any of us would have defended this woman if it had turned out she was white and the victim was black.
It was a 1997 Chevy Cavalier (see links in post #91).
My money is on the red cross.
The lawyer has already started in on that line. . .
But Ms. Mallard's attorney said that many details of the
case have been overblown and that his client is devastated
by the accident and seeking counseling. "She is not the
cold, harsh, inhumane person they would have you think,"
defense attorney Mike Heiskell said. "This girl is not a
monster."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/642574/posts
Yes, and as I recall that was a middle age white guy. That would have made a great hood ornament for the beast.
That will be revealed after the investigation is a little further down the road. This story just broke as murder case Thursday morning. . .
She is 25. How old does a female criminal have to be before her defenders stop calling her a "girl"?
Hmmmm......how many of you could go into your garage, allegedly apologize for hitting a human being (bleeding and stuck in your windshield), and then return to the bedroom for sexual intercourse?
This "woman" ain't just 'inhuman', she's 'inanimal'.
Fry her.
And the "lawyer".
Good point. I'm not sure she would have,but I seriously doubt she would have been giggling about it at a party later on, or that all of her friends but one would have helped with the cover-up. If nothing else, they would have dropped him off somewhere and made a anomonous call for a ambulance for him.
Did you see the comment early regarding the concept of this being "premeditated?" What do you think about that??
However I don't believe that if the initial news stories did not mention race, that was not by accident.
I have noticed in the local papers here, and on TV news, that in the last couple of years whenever the description of the perpetrator of a crime is posted race is now no longer included in the description. When I got to looking into some of these it seemed to always come up that the perp was black.
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