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Mallard sentenced to 60 years06/27/2003
Jurors have unanimously sentenced Chante Mallard to 50 years for murdering Gregory Biggs, and 10 years for tampering with evidence.
Prosecutors portrayed convicted murderer Chante Mallard on Friday as a cold and remorseless person for whom the death of Gregory Biggs was “simply a bump in the road of her life.”
Addressing the jury in the punishment phase of Ms. Mallard’s murder trial, prosecutors urged jurors to sentence Ms. Mallard to life in prison for striking Mr. Biggs with her car and leaving him to bleed to death in her windshield.
“Some people lack the moral fiber to do the right thing,” lead prosecutor Richard Alpert said. “You know what any decent person with a shred of dignity would do. They would have called for help.”
But defense attorneys asked the jury for “justice tempered with mercy” in deciding Ms. Mallard’s fate.
Defense attorney Jeffrey Kearney said Ms. Mallard felt “true and honest and heart-felt remorse.” He reminded jurors that she did not ask to be put on probation for her actions on the night Mr. Biggs died, but to be sent to prison.
“She said, ‘I deserve it,’” he said.
The seven-man, five-woman jury began deliberating punishment at 3 p.m. Friday. It has a wide range of options in sentencing Ms. Mallard, from probation to life in prison.
Mr. Kearney said jurors should show mercy because Ms. Mallard had never been charged with a crime before she hit Mr. Biggs, and now only wishes to have a chance at a future.
“It didn’t happen because she’s an evil, horrible person,” Mr. Kearney said. “What she did is horrible, but she is not a horrible person. There is a lot of good here.”
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Gregory Glenn Biggs
graduated from Evangel
Temple Christian School in
Grand Prairie in 1982.
Portrait taken of Biggs in 1988.
Chante Mallard
Chante Mallard (left) is accused of striking
Gregory Biggs with her car and leaving him
to die in the windshield.
