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

The Dallas Morning News ^ | June 26, 2003 | By DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News

[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.

[kaylar]

Also on MSNBC :Guilty verdict in windshield death

Good!

[MeekOneGOP]

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.

[Peach]

This is the right decision. Couldn't believe the legal talking heads last night saying it was a simple manslaughter case. Guess they hadn't read about the doctors from Johns Hopkins who said the man could have been saved had the murderer gotten him medical attention right away.

[rockfish59]

Think of the buzz if Biggs were black and Mallard white?

[Dog Gone]

prosecutors relied heavily on the testimony Titilesse "T" Caree Fry

Where do parents come up with these names?

[MeekOneGOP]

Thread history on this story:

06-26-2003
Windshield Verdict - Breaking Thread

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

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

[SamAdams76]

Let me get this straight: A woman strikes a man with her car and then drives home with him lodged in her windshield. She then leaves him in the garage to die and the defense has a problem with the murder charge? Says the charge should merely be "failure to render aid?"

I have a hard time grasping that kind of logic. Was this woman in jail since her 2001 arrest? Hopefully she was and hopefully she will receive a life sentence.

[mewzilla]

If you that's bad you should have seen Mickey Sherman on Linda Vester's show on FNC talking about how the drug impairment angle was no big deal because almost everybody does it (drives impaired). Charming. Talk about defining deviancy down.

[mewzilla]

...think that's bad...To be fair, Sherman was for throwing the book at her for what she did to the victim after she hit him, but he also seemed to think that hitting the guy while she was higher than a kite was no big deal.

[BSunday]

Think of the buzz if Biggs were black and Mallard white?

Yeah, the buzz would be saying "hate crime"

[MeekOneGOP]

I saw your comment on the deleted duplicate breaking thread:

She did not get 1st degree murder.

I wonder where I got the idea it was first degree murder ?

So then what are the sentencing options in this case? Can she still get life in prison ?

[ken in texas]

I think the range is from 5 to 99 years.

[Lunatic Fringe]

She is facing life in prison, plus 10 years for tampering with evidence

[Dog Gone]

If you were the lawyer assigned to defend her, what would you come up with?

Sure, it's weak which is why the jury deliberated only long enough to have a donut and a restroom break before announcing their verdict.

[Peach]

I think they are considering the sentencing phase right now and I too hope it's life.

[Peach]

That failure to render aid defense was ridiculous and thankfully the jury saw right through it. I don't know whether she's been jailed since her arrest or not.

The everybody does it defense is lame, too. Not everybody drives while impaired and those that do should do jail time.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks !

[lysie]

Help me out here, folks. I seem to recall that several years ago there was a law passed or almost past stating that if an uninvolved person sees another person commit a crime on another the uninvolved could be charged.

Did I imagine it or is it true?

[MeekOneGOP]

Where do parents come up with these names?

hehe ! I know, isn't that strange?

For some reason my first thought seeing your comments was a strange twist from Art Linkletter:

Parents say the darndest things !