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

The Dallas Morning News ^ | June 18, 2003 | By LAURIE FOX and DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

I will be following this story and I have a ping list. If you want on it, let me know either on the thread or by FReep mail (specify Mallard trial or Windshield Murder trial)? Thanks!

I searched all the previous threads I could find and all the pictures of the victim (Gregory Biggs) are DOA. If you have a pic of him, can you post it on this thread (or send me the URL and I'll post it).

Here is the defendant on trial, Chante Mallard:

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[MeekOneGOP]

What the heck is this ?? FOX News NOT covering this ?! I don't believe that!:

But officials from Fox News, the National Enquirer and Star , each of which helped propel the Peterson case to national prominence through omnipresent coverage, say they have no plans to send reporters to the Mallard trial. The outlets declined to explain their decisions.

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And I hope this lady frys....eeerrr fall asleep from injections.

[fight_truth_decay]

The nursing assistant claims she was afraid to get help the night she hit Biggs because she was high on ecstasy and driving under the influence of alcohol. Biggs apparently pleaded for help to Mallard while lodged in the windshield in vain.

Tarrant County prosecutor Richard Alpert is quoted as saying, "We have information that shows that the person was on there long enough that they lived, suffered and they were not given medical attention and that it would have made a difference if they were."

According to the police, Mallard, assisted by friend, dumped Biggs's dead body in a park after he finally died, three days after the crash in the windshield of the vehicle parked in Mallard's garage. The body was found October 27th.

A tip last month (April 2002) lead police to Mallard, and upon investigating her home they found the car parked in the garage with the blood and hair of Biggs in the hole in the windshield. In the back yard, police found the car seats removed and burned.http://www.zone81.com/arch_news/1025662141487

Police recently arrested one suspect who apparently helped Mallard dump the corpse. Mallard has told police that for the three days Biggs was in her windshield in her garage and still alive, she "visited" him from time to time to say "Hi." On those occasions, Biggs allegedly pleaded frantically to Mallard, but she ignored his pleas and simply told him "sorry."

Mike Heiskell, Mallard's lawyer, says Mallard is "not the animal or monster the police are portraying her to be. Not this cold inhumane person that we've heard about."

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks! I've added you.

She doesn't face the Death Penalty on this one, though. Pretty strange, huh ??

A lot of controversy over that. But she accidentally hit the guy. It was her decisions AFTER that which got her in real trouble and which a lot of folks think warrant capital murder in this case. She made some stupid/horrible mistakes. It's hard for me to imagine and express it all.

[Gunrunner2]

>>But officials from Fox News, the National Enquirer and Star , each of which helped propel the Peterson case to national prominence through omnipresent
coverage, say they have no plans to send reporters to the Mallard trial. <<

Notice the grouping of Fox News with the National Enquirer and Star (tabloids). An obvious attempt to denigrate Fox News, to make it nothing more than a tabloid itself.

EVERY major media outlet "propelled" the Peterson case to national prominence. Granted, Fox News' I-am-Gretta-and-Peterson-is-all-I-cover-all-the-time is a bit much, but MSNBC and others are doing the same thing.

Sheesh. . .

[Freebird Forever]

Ms. Mallard would have a "fair trial, free from any media interference or influence."

I think this statement is a display of prudence.

Don't want her death sentence being overturned on appeal.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for that report and link.

Police recently arrested one suspect who apparently helped Mallard dump the corpse. Mallard has told police that for the three days Biggs was in her windshield in her garage and still alive, she "visited" him from time to time to say "Hi." On those occasions, Biggs allegedly pleaded frantically to Mallard, but she ignored his pleas and simply told him "sorry."

Mike Heiskell, Mallard's lawyer, says Mallard is "not the animal or monster the police are portraying her to be. Not this cold inhumane person that we've heard about."

Oh, no. Not cold at all. I hope if someone accidentally runs over me they are just like Chante. < /sarcasm >

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. I noticed that too. It just goes to show you that FOX is the KING in news coverage and the has-beens will do whatever to run them down!

And I would just BET that FOX does cover this too!

[MeekOneGOP]

She is charged with murder, not capital murder. No DP. A LONG sentence is in store for her, however, imho.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Windshield case?

Isn't this a Hate Crime case?

[MeekOneGOP]

Here is a picture of the victim:

Gregory Biggs

[fight_truth_decay]

Toogood Reports --"Is Killing A White Man In Texas No Big Deal? ...Chante (or Shantae) Mallard, described it in her own words to a friend, giggling, simply as, "I hit this white man." This time the driver of the vehicle was a black woman and the man dragged to his death was a white man, 37 year old Gregory Glenn Biggs. Whether or not Mallard, a nurse´s aide, hit the "white man" by accident or on purpose has not been asked, apparently...

In this case, the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign have not said a word about a white man being "dragged to his death, all because he was white." In fact, it took longer for Mallard to kill Biggs, who was alive and begging for help for two days, than it took Bill King and Russell Brewer, Jr. to kill Byrd (three white men were tried and convicted of murder for the dragging death of a black man, James Byrd, Jr. in June of 1998. Two of the men, Bill King, 25, and Russell Brewer Jr., 32, who were the ones who actually killed Byrd, were sentenced to death.) . According to Mallard´s testimony in a March 7, 2002 affidavit after one of her friends alerted the police, the injured man was "sticking halfway into the passenger compartment through the windshield." She "went inside, had sex with her boyfriend, Terrance, went out to the garage and the man wasn´t dead yet, but he was dying. Shantae stated that the man was asking them to help him, but that they just walked back inside. Shantae advised that they waited until he died, which was a couple of days."

After he died, the affidavit says, "Terrance and his brother took the body and dumped it in Cobb Park" where it was found on October 27.."

In the Presidential election campaign of 2000, the Byrd murder became an issue used against Republican candidate George W. Bush. The National Voter Fund, (a project of the NAACP) and the Human Rights Campaign launched ad campaigns that inferred Bush was somehow responsible for the Byrd murder[George W. Bush's refusal to support hate crimes legislation.."arguing that all crimes are hate crimes and that no special protections are necessary for violence motivated by bias and discrimination." ].

[chance33_98]

Thanks for the ping and update!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Add me to the list. Who the heck does she think she is? The Bishop of Phoenix?

[Ann Archy]

This crime sickened me more than almost any other I had ever heard about (that didn't involve children).......end times.....it feels like end times.

[MeekOneGOP]

My pleasure. Thank you !

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