Gregory Glenn Biggs graduated from Evangel Temple Christian School in Grand Prairie in 1982.
At right is a portrait taken of Biggs in 1988.
Posted on 06/22/2003 8:43:39 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Gregory Glenn Biggs graduated from Evangel Temple Christian School in Grand Prairie in 1982.
At right is a portrait taken of Biggs in 1988.
STAR-TELEGRAM ARCHIVES/RODGER MALLISON Chante Mallard attends a hearing in March 2002 that increased her bail to $250,000. Two men have pleaded guilty in the case and are expected to testify for the prosecution.
STAR-TELEGRAM ARCHIVES/JOYCE MARSHALL Gregory Glenn Biggs died within hours of being struck after Chante Mallard parked her car inside the garage of her house on Wilbarger Street, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.
Tell me more about the other driver and I will condemn him too.
JOHNNY O'CONNOR BOUGHT AN AUTOMOBILE,
HE TOOK HIS SWEETHEART FOR A RIDE ONE SUNDAY,
JOHNNY WAS TOGGED UP IN HIS BEST SUNDAY CLOTHES,
SHE NESTLED CLOSE TO HIS SIDE
THINGS WENT JUST DANDY 'TILL HE GOT DOWN THE ROAD,
THEN SOME-THING HAPPENED TO THE OLD MACHINERY,
THAT ENGINE GOT HIS GOAT, OFF WENT HIS HAT AND COAT,
EV'RYTHING NEEDED REPAIRS
Chorus
HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER, GET OUT AND GET UN-DER
TO FIX HIS LITTLE MACHINE,
HE WAS JUST DYING TO CUDDLE HIS QUEEN,
BUT EV'RY MINUTE, WHEN HE'D BEGIN IT,
HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER, GET OUT AND GET UNDER,
THEN HE'D GET BACK AT THE WHEEL
A DOZEN TIMES THEY'D START TO HUG AND KISS
AND THEN THE DARNED OLD ENGINE IT WOULD MISS
AND THEN HE'D HAVE TO GET UNDER, GET OUT AND GET UNDER,
AND FIX UP HIS AUTOMOBILE.
MILLIONAIRE WILSON SAID TO JOHNNY ONE DAY,
YOUR LITTLE SWEETHEART DON'T APPRECIATE YOU,
I HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO IS HUNGRY FOR LOVE,
SHE LIKES TO RIDE BY THE WAY,
JOHNNY HAD VISIONS OF A MILLION IN GOLD,
HE TOOK HER RIDING IN HIS LITTLE AUTO,
BUT EV'RY TIME THAT HE WENT TO SAY "MARRY ME,"
'TWAS THE OLD STORY AGAIN
Chorus
Actually those pics on #100-101-102 have a different link than the one linked on this article.Here is the link to the pics and a little background on the players in this case trial:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6145046.htm
Key players in the Chante Mallard trial
THE PROSECUTORS
Richard Alpert, 43, left, has been chief of the misdemeanor section for the Tarrant County district attorney's office since 1994 and is recognized for his expertise in the prosecution of cases involving driving while intoxicated and intoxication manslaughter. He has tried more than 100 cases before juries, including 16 murders and 10 involuntary/intoxication manslaughter cases. Of those 26 homicide cases, only one ended with an acquittal. He won an intoxication-manslaughter conviction of a woman whose blood-alcohol level measured 0.05, half of what was then the legal limit. He also secured a life sentence for Eugene Standerford, who had eight previous DWI convictions, in the death of a Fort Worth police officer. Alpert is married and has three children.
Christy Jack, 37, has served as a prosecutor in the trial division since 1991 and was promoted to chief prosecutor in 1998. She has tried more than 125 cases before juries, including 10 capital murder cases. She won capital murder convictions against Robert Neville and Michael Hall, who are on Death Row for the kidnapping, torture and fatal shooting of Amy Robinson, a mentally challenged girl from Arlington. Jack is a member of the hiring committee for the district attorney's office and helps supervise and train 24 lawyers in the misdemeanor division. She is married and has one child.
Miles Brissette, 31, right, has served as a prosecutor in the trial division since 1998. He has tried more than 80 cases before juries, ranging from capital murders to DWIs. He is a member of the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the Texas Advisory Council on arson. He recently secured a life sentence for a man convicted of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, brutally stabbing her and leaving her for dead. He also secured a 70-year sentence for a man accused in a string of armed robberies. He is single.
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
Jeff Kearney, 54, left, of the Kearney Law Firm in Fort Worth, is board-certified in criminal law and has been listed since 1991 in "The Best Lawyers in America," a referral guide based on the opinions of other lawyers. The current issue of Texas Monthly names the 30-year attorney a Texas Super Lawyer for 2003. He won an acquittal for a surviving Branch Davidian accused of murder. The Davidian was convicted on gun charges. He also defended a man in the first federal prosecution for telephone slamming and won 110 not-guilty verdicts. He is representing Hazim Elashi, co-owner of Richardson-based InfoCom Corp., who is accused in a federal indictment of doing business with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Kearney is married and has one child.
Wm. Reagan Wynn, 32, is an associate with the Kearney Law Firm. He is listed in the "The Best Lawyers in America Consumer Guide," an offshoot of the referral publication, and was also recently named by Texas Monthly as a Texas Super Lawyer for 2003. He is board-certified in criminal law. He is representing Michael Hall before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, arguing that Hall is mentally retarded and should be exempt from the death penalty. Wynn and his wife are expecting their first child.
THE JUDGE
James R. Wilson, 47, was elected in 1994 to the 371st state District Court. After graduating in 1989 from the California Western School of Law in San Diego, this former limousine driver and furniture repairman went into private practice, specializing in all areas of law. The so-called windshield case is the most high-profile trial he has presided over. He has imposed some restrictions on coverage, including issuing a gag order and allowing only pool cameras inside the courtroom. Court TV will be allowed to televise the trial and to disseminate footage to other news agencies. Wilson is married and has four children and four grandchildren.
Mallard trial
Chante Mallard's trial in the death of Gregory Biggs is expected to begin Monday in the 371st state District Court in Fort Worth. Court TV is scheduled to televise the proceedings. State District Judge James Wilson has placed a gag order on the lawyers and on others involved in the case.
The Star-Telegram will provide continuous updates at www.star-telegram.com.
Deanna Boyd, (817) 390-7655 dboyd@star-telegram.com
Melody McDonald, (817) 390-7386 mjmcdonald@star-telegram.com
Never love something that doesn't love you back.
Kids love you back.
Pets--sometimes sort of.
But cars? Nope. Not worth human love--not even affection; one would be repaid with trouble and heartache, and when it comes to cars, they give enough trouble and heartache as it is.
If I didn't have to worry about keeping up appearances, the only time my car would get washed would be when it rained.
No--that's mostly overpopulation.
Were there room in more congenial climes, you would scarcely need any shelter at all.
And no neighbors to make you mow your lawn. (Lawns! Whatever started that Sisyphean concept? You mow it, and it grows right back again. What a waste of time.)
Maybe you support Ted Kazenski's cabin life. You aren't far away from Albert Gore Junior's rants against the internal combustible engine.
In post #106 there is a supplemental post with the players in the trial.Post #100-101-102 has some pics (and a few more pics in the link at #106).
Here is a little something I found on the Dallas Morning News Search regarding the jury selection:
http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/ap/stories/AP_STATEGS_0353.html
Jury seated in murder case of woman
charged with hitting homeless man06/20/2003
The Associated Press
FORT WORTH, Texas — Eight men and six women were selected Friday afternoon as jurors in the murder trial of a woman accused of hitting a man, driving home with his body in the windshield of her car and ignoring his cries for help as he died in her garage.
The panel, which includes two alternates, was selected over three days in the case of Chante Jawan Mallard, who is also charged with tampering with evidence. Opening statements were to begin Monday.
Mallard, 26, faces life in prison if convicted of killing Gregory Biggs, 37, who had been living in a Fort Worth homeless shelter.
His body was found in a park Oct. 27, 2001, but police had no leads until a tipster came forward four months later, saying Mallard talked about the incident at a party.
Police initially said Biggs may have lived for several days in the garage, but the medical examiner later said the man probably died a few hours after being hit.
Two of Mallard's friends, Clete Deneal Jackson and Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, have pleaded guilty to dumping Biggs' body. They were sentenced to 10 years and nine years in prison, respectively, and are to testify against Mallard.
(ap.state.online.tx 0353 06/20/2003 20:42:55 )
A person convicted for capital murder and receiving a life sentence must serve forty years before being considered for parole. A person convicted of any other first-degree felony (including murder) with a life sentence must serve thirty years before being considered for parole.
Well. This little ditty bears repeating ! :
DEFENSE ATTORNEYS
Jeff Kearney, 54, left, of the Kearney Law Firm in Fort Worth, is board-certified in criminal law and has been listed since 1991 in "The Best Lawyers in America," a referral guide based on the opinions of other lawyers. The current issue of Texas Monthly names the 30-year attorney a Texas Super Lawyer for 2003. He won an acquittal for a surviving Branch Davidian accused of murder. The Davidian was convicted on gun charges. He also defended a man in the first federal prosecution for telephone slamming and won 110 not-guilty verdicts. He is representing Hazim Elashi, co-owner of Richardson-based InfoCom Corp., who is accused in a federal indictment of doing business with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Kearney is married and has one child.
Excerpted:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/22/windshield.death.ap/
Woman stands trial for killing homeless man
Sunday, June 22, 2003 Posted: 4:48 PM EDT (2048 GMT)
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- It was hours before dawn on a highway southeast of downtown. A homeless man walked along a shoulder of the road as a former nurse's aide drove home after a night of drinking at a bar.
What happened next isn't clear. All Chante Jawan Mallard could remember, according to police reports, was that her Chevrolet Cavalier hit the man with such force that his head and shoulders jammed into the windshield, shattering it, and his legs bent over the roof, his pants tearing almost completely off his body.
Instead of stopping, police say, Mallard drove about a mile down the divided six-lane highway, the man still lodged and bleeding in the jagged windshield, then continued through town to her small yellow house in a working-class neighborhood.
Click here for entire article
So build a roof.
Were it possible to live in the right location, you wouldn't need to store much in the way of perishables any more than you would need to store air.
Unfortunately, I am sure there is no such place remaining up for grabs on the face of the earth. (Thor Hyerdahl tried to find it, and had to compromise--and that was back in 1937.)
I don't think Judges worry much about that--but I could be wrong.
In any case, at best this woman is either inhuman and/or some mixture of stupid and coward who was involved in a tiger-by-the-tail syndrome (as I call it): The longer someone in her situation doesn't go to the authorities, the worse it is for them when they do.
It's one of those traps life could have in store for any of us at any time.
And it takes many forms.
I remember the old newsreel of the sailor dangling from a dirigible's mooring line--before he knew it, he was ten feet off the gound, and before he could decide whether to let go, he was another ten feet.
The dirigible continued to rise so fast and for so long,that he finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell hundreds of feet to his death.
Had he been quicker, he would merely have suffered a broken ankle. Tiger by the tail.
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