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Windshield death suspect back in jail - Bail raised to $250,000 - Informant Receives Death Threats
The Dallas Morning News ^ | March 9, 2002 | By NANCY CALAWAY / The Dallas Morning News

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

By NANCY CALAWAY / The Dallas Morning News

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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Chante J. Mallard, 25, was booked into the Tarrant County Jail on Friday afternoon on a murder charge the third time she has been incarcerated in 10 days in connection with the October death of Gregory G. Biggs, 37.

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.

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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


Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/030902dnmethitandrun.195f5.html


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To: MeeknMing
This woman is sick. I did not originally realize that she had struck him and then drove home with him on the hood of her car and left him to bleed to death and die in her house.

Apparently she also later giggled and laughed as she described killing this man. And this person was a nurses aid!?!?! eeesh... scary!

This has to be one of the most bizaare cases I've heard about in quite a while, the lack of humanity in this is almost beyond belief.

21 posted on 03/09/2002 3:29:42 AM PST by cascademountaineer
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To: Las Vegas Dave
Or Johnie Cochran, "If the hood ornament don't fit, you must....", you know the rest.

LOL! Ouch! I hadn't thought of that!

22 posted on 03/09/2002 3:29:47 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: MeeknMing
There is a lesson here somewhere.
23 posted on 03/09/2002 3:29:52 AM PST by wita
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To: MeeknMing
Oh this woman is WAY past the definition of idiot. She left him intangled in her windshield?? She is sick! Lock her up and throw away the key.
24 posted on 03/09/2002 3:29:55 AM PST by kassie
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To: MeeknMing
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.

She hit a man with her car, hid him in her garage for two days, watched him slowly die and then dumped his body. BUT - she's a former girl scout . . . so we know we don't have to worry about her "willingness to attend future court proceedings."
25 posted on 03/09/2002 3:32:03 AM PST by dubyas_vision
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To: MeeknMing
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.

Gimme a break. Her lawyer is a sleezebag!!

26 posted on 03/09/2002 3:34:20 AM PST by Brownie74
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To: MeeknMing
Didn't a previous report indicate she was laughing & bragging about killing a white man? This is another example of "Hate Crimes" being one-way and the absolute lunacy of the concept. If you kill someone, does hating that person make it more criminal? The liberals continue to exhibit their absolute lack of logic, intellect and basic common sense. I'm so outraged!!!!
27 posted on 03/09/2002 3:35:32 AM PST by newfreep
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To: MeeknMing
Where is Jesse JackA**, anyway?. . .

He's too busy at the moment shining up his tarnished image from the book "Shakedown"

I'm sure as soon as that's done, he'll be there "splaining" to us the homeless man should have not been at the location, so not to be hit and the poor victim really was a dis-enfranished (sp?) black women who was too busy having sex and on drugs to make a humane decision.

28 posted on 03/09/2002 3:37:16 AM PST by JZoback
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To: JZoback
She's in deep trouble.

Wasn't Hillary outraged about the plight of the homeless during the election.

How come she's not down there running her mouth in defense of this guy?

29 posted on 03/09/2002 3:38:36 AM PST by Kerberos
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To: kassie
This is truly a sick world, it's a world in which the informant receives the death threats and the killer receives none! Poor MR. Biggs....Perhaps someday we'll actually make people scared of the punishment for murdering innocent people.......
30 posted on 03/09/2002 3:38:40 AM PST by AdamsMark
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To: kassie
I hate to say this, and it makes me sick to my stomach but:

She Will Walk

31 posted on 03/09/2002 3:39:26 AM PST by Skooz
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To: Dane; doug from upland; xm177e2; John O; StolarStorm; kaylar; Blood of Tyrants; Cicero...
fyi
32 posted on 03/09/2002 3:42:45 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: Las Vegas Dave
Yes Charles Schwarz had his set at 1 million.
33 posted on 03/09/2002 3:42:52 AM PST by Woodman
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To: Lois
The October drive to her home in the 3800 block of Wilbarger Street was about four miles. Ms. Mallard had planned to burn the car to destroy the evidence, police said.

"There was considerable physical evidence there," Lt. Jesse Hernandez said. "They found her car, blood, hair, other trace evidence. The car seats had been removed and were found in the back yard. One of the seats had been burned."

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner said Mr. Biggs is believed to have died two or three days after the collision - from blood loss, not directly from the injuries sustained in the crash.

34 posted on 03/09/2002 3:42:52 AM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
The car seats had been removed and were found in the back yard. One of the seats had been burned.

Gaaaa... and these people have the ability to procreate? Scary.

35 posted on 03/09/2002 3:46:26 AM PST by Skooz
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To: Skooz
What am yous talkin' bout! I's wuz framed by the white police!! I think dis man was in da KKK, I's had to protect myself!!! He told me he voted for George W. Bush so's I gots real scared and defended myself!! I thought he was gonna do like Bush and drag me behind a truck!! I left him in da windshield to's preserve the evidence!!! OJ wuz innocent and so wuz I!!!!!!!!!!!
36 posted on 03/09/2002 3:46:34 AM PST by noloveforlibs
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To: MeeknMing
All of the posters here seem to not be aware of the new rules in this county. They really are quite simple. It goes like this.

If you are white and do something like say, tie a black guy to the back of your pickup truck and drag him to death, well that’s capitol murder.

However if you’re black and do something like say, stick some white guy through your windshield and leave him there for a couple of days to slowly die, well that’s a misunderstanding.

Please get with the program.

37 posted on 03/09/2002 3:46:40 AM PST by Kerberos
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To: Kerberos
How come she's not down there running her mouth in defense of this guy?

Hillary is far to slick, (not smart) to say anything about this case. She will either piss off the homeless coalition or the blacks who could defend this women, which is hard to believe in the first place anybody could defend her actions, but someone will.

After all, it was only a homeless white man that was left to slowly die, no big deal, right?

38 posted on 03/09/2002 3:47:01 AM PST by JZoback
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To: Skooz
You may be right, I really hope not though. This is messed up. I'm not sure of the requirements in all 50 states but...

I believe one of the requirments for a charge of murder is still supreme indifference to human life

I certainly think this incident qualifies.

39 posted on 03/09/2002 3:48:44 AM PST by cascademountaineer
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To: JZoback
This women is going to spend a long time in jail or there truly is a deep and serious problem with our country.

The average time severed in prison for those convicted of murder, is 96 months. For manslaughter it is 49 months(Bureau of Justice Statistics 1990-2000, reported in USA Today, October 24, 2001) .

40 posted on 03/09/2002 3:50:17 AM PST by waterstraat
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