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
well thanks for straightening me out (gao nyung nyung de) ..hehe
Ah, yes! I know of ONE!
The FReeper community is outraged! True??. . .
In a weird sense, the defense attorney may be doing us a favor.
bump!
Perhaps the author is upset at the cost of cookies this year?
As I've written in other posts,it was clearly premeditated murder. She KNEW he would eventually die if left alone without help,and didn't even offer him a glass of water to help with the shock,or a aspirin for pain. It would have been a more humane death if she had cut his throat,rather than let him suffer for 3 days. In fact,this amounts to a torture murder.
I noticed that too. I'm not sure if it's a typo or just a strange coincidence that the names are similar. . .
Your argument is quite convincing. I appreciate your commentary - thanks.
Link?
I know, that's why I was so suprised. I thought I was the only one who thought that the Girl Scouts is an odd organization.
Besides that, their cookies suck.
From Paragraph 1--FORT WORTH, Texas — The woman accused of leaving a hit-and-run victim to bleed to death in the windshield of her car giggled several months later as she told friends, "I hit this white man," according to the police report filed against her.
Of course quite naturally FOX was the only one to report this.
If the situation were reversed you can bet race would have been an issue. In fact it would have been THE ONLY ISSUE.
So in the interest of BALANCE it seems well worth mentioning that she seemed to think it was FUNNY that she KILLED a WHITE MAN.
Left Bleeding, Dying, Pleading for Mercy, Help:
Mr. Biggs was run over, trapped in the windshield of Mallard's car, bleeding, dying, begging for help, alone! His plea's fell on deaf ears, ignored, his tormentors walked away, partied, had sex, came back and appologized for letting him die, he begged for help, she walked away.
Mr. Biggs was a fellow human being, his race is immaterial, he could have been anyone's loved one. His tormentor's walked away and let him die, alone, and it the Media walks away from this "horendous" crime and allow it to die away to go on with the next story, they are just as "guilty" as the people who are responsible for allowing him to die.
As I speak, his tormentor (Mallard) has people working to picture her as a "victim", what is wrong with this picture? Where is the humanity? She had other's aid and abet her crime against this poor soul, anyone of them could have helped Mr. Biggs but they chose to let him bleed to death, where is the outcry for this for this man?
PS: Mr. Biggs is not longer "homeless" but his "senseless" death still cries out for justice. He was a member of our society, a former School Bus Driver, he was a fellow American and he deserves better from all of us, and no less.
Sincerely, yada, yada,
The white woman giggled as she told her friends "I killed a black man."
one could definitely make that case, I think
Yes, Meekie, one definitely could make the case that this was premeditated. The standards exist of what a "reasonable person" would do, think, or act like. A reasonable person would know that someone would bleed to death if left like this. A reasonable person would know that INTENTIONALLY withholding medical treatment from someone in like condition, while additionally INTENTIONALLY withholding food and water, would cause that person to die.
Take that "reasonable person" standard and then couple it with someone whose occupation is in the medical field, i.e., a nurse's aid, such as this monster was.....it goes way beyond what a "REASONABLE PERSON" would know what to do, the knowing the CONSEQUENCES OF WITHHOLDING MEDICAL AID, FOOD, WATER, .....I definitely think PREMEDITATED MURDER applies here. She's despicable. I feel so bad for that man to have died in such torment and agony. There's no excuse for her behavior.
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