Mallard gets 60 years

dallas morning news ^

[dennis1x]

not eligible for parole for 30.

[oreolady]

lolol, the best punishment.

[OldFriend]

By not testifying during the trial she avoided having to confess the fact that she had sex with some guy while the man was dying in her garage.

There's something so evil about what she did, but have in our society a large segment of the population with a total disregard for life.

I am glad I didn't ever watch any of the proceedings or see the pictures, it is too heartbreaking.

[pepperhead]

Opps....Well at least not in Texas. ;)

[OldFriend]

Teddy Kennedy committed the same crime.

[MEGoody]

"It does not meet the legal definition of murder."

So what is the legal definition of murder?

[MeekOneGOP]

Thread history on this story:

06-27-2003
Mallard gets 60 years

06-27-2003
Windshield viper cries for mercy/
Son of homeless man takes stand again (#295)

06-26-2003
Mallard found guilty in windshield death case -
guilty of murder and tampering with evidence

06-26-2003
Windshield Verdict - Breaking Thread

06-25-2003 Trial Report
Defense, prosecution rest in windshield case

06-25-2003
Chante Mallard Testifies in Sentencing Phase of Trial

06-25-2003 Trial Report
Fire captain: It wasn't too late for man in windshield -
victim would have survived with medical aid

06-24-2003 Trial Report
Forensic scientist takes stand in windshield death
case - victim 'spit blood...gripped map holder'

06-23-2003 (Trial Begins)
Mallard pleads not guilty to murder - smoked pot,
took ecstasy and drank heavily before hit and run

06-23-2003
Trial begins in death-by-windshield case

Pre-Trial Articles:

06-22-2003
Windshield case: Was it murder?
(Chante Mallard Murder Trial)

06-18-2003
Windshield case attracts spotlight -
Mallard trial focuses natl media, legal eye on FW courts again

03-07-2002:
Man Lives 2 Days Stuck In Broken Windshield
(THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE - The woman should be SHOT!)

03-07-2002:
Police: Hit-Run Victim Lived Two Days Trapped in Windshield of Woman's Car

03-07-2002:
Texas Woman Charged With Allowing Hit-and-Run Victim to Die in Broken Windshield

03-07-2002:
Hit-and-run victim lodged in windshield for days

03-08-2002:
Woman accused of hitting man, leaving him to die on windshield
[Lawyer says case "overblown"]

03-08-2002:
Update on Man in Windshield story-
Woman had sex while man was dying in garage, "A mistake" she says

03-08-2002:
Police: Hit-run victim left to die in car windshield

03-09-2002:
Windshield death suspect back in jail - Bail raised to $250,000 -
Informant Receives Death Threats

03-13-2002:
Man died in hours, doctor says -
Windshield Hit & Run Murder Charge Stands - Suspect Still in Jail

03-15-2002:
Son sues suspect in windshield fatality -
Murder Suspect Still in Jail

[MEGoody]

"Teddy Kennedy committed the same crime."

Yes, and?

[Fawnn]

I have seen no mercy shown to a dying,helpless man.

And she wasn't so impaired that she wasn't able to think to call for help for HERSELF!

I didn't see the entire sentencing hearing, but what I did see -- the only remourse she showed, imo, was that she made decisions that messed up her life, not that she made decisions that left a man to die. The "my actions made me the victim here" stuff just didn't cut it for me.

[wimpycat]

So what is the legal definition of murder?

Be sure to ask him specifically about Texas law. We have at least 50 different definitions and gradations of murder in the U.S.

[Michael.SF.]

Hitting the person with her car: was that intentional?

I think we all agree that it was an accident and not her fault that she hit the guy.

If not, it was vehicular manslaughter. I think she should have been tried for that, and then tried for the acts that followed, separately.

What purpose would that have served? Nobody would gain from that except the lawyers and the court stenographer. The great state of Texas would have been spending a lot of extra dollars for a second trial to proove what? That she did infact let the man die.

[MeekOneGOP]

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.

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 at 3840 Wilbarger Street , according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.

Gregory Biggs

[oreolady]

Did you see the fat pig waddling down the hall yesterday on a news blurb? (forgot which).
He sickens me to look at him, and to think of how he got by with murder!!!!!
It makes the people who continue to vote him in look way stupid.

[pepperhead]

What would be the second charge then? She did more than just fail to render aid. She took a bleeding man to a place where no one could find him. Then she let him die in pain for however long it took.

[thinking]

Wonder how many abortions she has had over the past years?

[A_perfect_lady]

Of course you're right... when the smoke starts rolling out of my ears it's hard to organize myself. First the hanging, then the rest, yes. Thanks for sorting that out. ;^)

[apackof2]

been charged with a crime before she hit Mr. Biggs, and now only wishes to have a chance at a future.

Mr. Biggs wanted the same thing also

[Sir Gawain]

I saw her testifying on Fox

I didn't pay close attention to it, so you might be right.

[A_perfect_lady]

And if that didn't do the job, then what?

Then throw her in the garage and wait it out.

[SerpentDove]

LOL

[visualops]

She said she thought she hit a big bug


If she hadn't killed a man in such a very depraved fashion, it'd be funny.