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.
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I can tell you what one angle will be right now. It will be she didn't know what she was doing when this first happened due to the drugs she was taking. Drugs supplied by the white man to keep black Americans oppressed.After all,drugs are about the only thing not thought of today to have been invented by blacks. The white man imports them into the black communities as another way of "keeping the black man down". By the time she got back to normal it was too late,and the man was already dead. She panicked then and disposed of the body.
Is this like the MUSLIM community OUTRAGED over the WTC 'incident'?
Calypgin already knows what I'm gonna say, and more than a few of you probably feel the same way too.
The media's purpose is NOT ONLY to lend a sympathetic ear to Mallard, it's even more important to these low lifes that degrade another important American institution with guilt by association.
The media has been doing this for TOO LONG. Boycott and let 'em know why. Press and TV numbers are dropping.
LET 'EM KNOW WHY!
Murder charges are pending. . .
You really think this fits the legal definition of Premeditated? My good friend and I were discussing this last night and that's what he said. Looking at the definition,
pre·med·i·tat·ed adjective
planned: not committed in a moment of passion
or mindlessness, for example, intense rage or drunkenness,
but thought out and decided on beforehand
was charged with premeditated murder
one could definitely make that case, I think.
It makes it premeditated murder. She should and could (but probably won't) receive the death sentence for this torture murder. There is no evidence she even offered him a aspirin or a glass of water,and it took him 2 or 3 days to die. This makes it torture.
Don't blame her. She's just a news reader. Somebody else worte it,and somebody else had to approve it before she was ever allowed to say it.
Race keeps being brought up, but this is more a case of one human's inhumanity to another human being, IMHO. . .
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but whatever they finally charge her with there still has to be intent.
Without intent, mens rea, there cannot be a crime.
(Mallards attorney) called on Mallard's parents and one of her older brothers, a Fort Worth Fire Department lieutenant, to testify that she would not be a flight risk.
James E. Mallard Sr. cried on the stand, saying the family was hardworking, close-knit and attended church together. He said his daughter has been staying with him and his wife, Dorothy, since the arrest.
"We want to keep her there with us," he said.
But when questioned by prosecutors, Chante Mallard's relatives acknowledged they did not know her boyfriend or her friends and had not been to her house in months.
Her relatives also said they did not know exactly where Mallard worked and when, and why she had at least three jobs in three years.
"It's evident her family cares about her, but they don't know her," Alpert told the judge.
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The attempts to humanize this slug don't seem to be working very well.
I'd almost be willing to bet on this being a fact. She's black,so they can't and won't fire her if all she does is sit on her ass and joke with her friends.
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