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

[Eddie Haskell]

OMG, I shouldn't laugh at your post, this situation is not funny, but your post really cracked me up.

[MeekOneGOP]

She Will Walk

I certainly hope that's not true. In Texas, we don't think too much of people that kill other people. This is attrocious, horrendous and beyond verbal description. She will get the maximum penalty allowed, IMHO. . .
At least, I hope so.

[Kerberos]

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

I believe the emphasis here should be on the phrase ”white man.”after all he is not a minority so therefore does not have the same rights.

[OhioGuy]

I wonder what would be happening if the victim was black and the perp was white.... hmmmm

[JZoback]

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).

Really???

This is the "Clinton get tough on crime" stats?

I guess we are in serious trouble, after all.

[Walkin Man]

I expect every newspaper and 24 hour news channel to scream "HATE CRIME" continuously on a daily basis for the next six months, minimum. I also want to see Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton defend this poor guy whos only crime was walking down a street at the same time as this doped up perp was driving on it. Obviously she was full of hate for this white guy as she hit him and left him to die in her garage.

Oh, it was a white man, hit and stuck in a windshield, then left to die while the perp, a black women partied and had sex in the next room.

Sorry, no hate crime here, everybody just move along.

Now if somebody could prove that the man was gay, it still might have a chance of being considered a "HATE CRIME".

[Eddie Haskell]

"Inhumanity to a fellow human being" is an understatement in this case. After hearing stories of a mother drowning her five children, hundreds of corpses found discarded like trash in Georgia by a crematorium, and so on, I thought I had heard it all and nothing else could shock me. I was wrong.

[JZoback]

I believe the emphasis here should be on the phrase ”white man.”after all he is not a minority so therefore does not have the same rights.

It will be interesting to see if that aspect, him being white, of the case will come up in the trial.

I suspect that he being homeless had a lot more to do with it than race. IMHO

[Skooz]

I hope so, too. The fact that this took place in Texas provides some hope. But criminal cases involving race have become so politicized that anything could happen.

I'll bet she gets off with an insanity plea. That, added to the fact that her ancestors suffered 400 years of slavery and racism is so pervasive in our society that she could not have acted in any other way, means she will probably get a slap on the wrist and be back on welfare and food stamps within months.

[MeekOneGOP]

"Inhumanity to a fellow human being" is an understatement in this case.

Yeah, I guess that's true. My real point was the above is more true than this case is about race. I could be wrong, but I'm not sure this woman would have sought help if the victim was black? Do you think she would have? Anyone??

I like your screen name, btw. "Leave it to Beave" is an all-time classic, IMHO. . .

[VA Advogado]

If the roles were reversed, certainly every race pimp in the country would descend on Ft Worth like locust in biblical times.

We'll know that this has reached the level of a hate crime when Jesse and Al descend on this town like circus barkers. Of course to them the hate crime will be charging this woman with murder.

[F-117A]

" Mr. Heiskell said, asking the judge to "look past the emotion and determine what is right and just."

I think the judge did that....by raising the bail!

[Eddie Haskell]

Didn't a previous report indicate she was laughing & bragging about killing a white man?

Well, if this is true, then it most definitely was a hate crime. The man was alive, stuck in her windshield, and in her garage? Give this b*tch the needle.

[TomGuy]

Judge Wilson also placed a gag order on Ms. Mallard's lawyer and on prosecutors in the case

Hopefully, that will keep defense attorney Mike Heiskell off the airwaves trying to drum up sympathy for Ms. Murderess Mallard.

[waterstraat]

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). Really??? This is the "Clinton get tough on crime" stats? I guess we are in serious trouble, after all.

It really has nothing to do with clinton. Murder is a state crime. The actual time served I listed was for 1999. The time served in 1990, for murder was 83 months, and for manslaughter was 31 months. We are already getting much tougher on murderers in spite of the terrible overcrowding of our prisons today, with about 2 million americans now incarcerated. When you hear on the news that someone gets "life" for murder, it does not mean "life", it means an average of 8 years.

We must make room in our prisons for people that use drugs!! Our prisons are too full,even after massive prison building, and the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the history of the earth.

[YaYa123]

NBC Saturday's TODAY host, Soledad O'Brien in the opening lead-in to the show, starts with this description "former girl scout, Sunday School stand-out, Chante Mallard..."

The victim's son will be interviewed later in the show. (Your video clip was invaluable in helping sort out some of the confusing details. Shame shame on local police for not shielding the tipster.)

[Eddie Haskell]

I hate to say this, and it makes me sick to my stomach but: She Will Walk

She will walk only if she gets a black jury from urban FW/Dallas. I can't imagine anybody acquitting a murderer such as this, but hey, if OJ got by with it....

[Diogenesis]

This just in:

Mallard is seeking to be the Democrat Attorney General.

[/sarcasm]

[YaYa123]

I hope anger at this despicable woman doesn't exclude same, for her accomplices after the fact. The people who helped her dispose of the body need to be prosecuted to the max.

[JZoback]

I could be wrong, but I'm not sure this woman would have sought help if the victim was black? Do you think she would have? Anyone??

I understand they were laughing and joking about the white man being stuck in her windshield, I think that's just the language they were using.

I think it is probably not really about race, but about a homeless person.

They probably had seen him around the neighborhood and thought that nobody will know if he is gone for a few days and finding a dead homeless person is not really a big deal, I'm sure it happens quite a bit.

I am giving them more credit then they probably deserve, but I think they knew what they were doing and took there chances that a dead homeless guy would go un-noticed and when found just thought he would be scooped up and forgotten.

IMHO