Windshield case: Was it murder? (Chante Mallard Murder Trial)

Fort Worth Star-Telegram / 'StartleGram' ^ | June 22, 2003 | By Deanna Boyd and Melody McDonald

[upchuck]

Can't you people see there are two victims in this tragedy?
There is nothing that can be done for Mr. Biggs, but there is no need to destroy another life. Chante has suffered enough. She has been in jail for over a year and will have to live the rest of her life with the memory of Gregory Glenn Biggs' horrible death. </sarcasm>

Ahh... your lessons from "reverend" Je$$e Jack$on are beginning to pay off :)

[F.J. Mitchell]

It would definately give her an edge.

[11B3]

Alternative sentence: Deportation to Rwanda or Zim.

[skr]

"A question (not that it matters to our legal system): Was the pedestrian sober at the time of the accident?"

I've never heard anything about his state of sobriety, but why would it matter considering what followed? Of course he might've died anyway, even if she'd called 911 immediately, but she guaranteed he wouldn't live through her actions. Certainly a nurse's aide, who supposedly dreams of becoming a nurse, would have some idea of shock and blood loss. It may have started out as an accident, but it most definitely turned into murder.

[jocon307]

"...she is black and he was white..."

WOW, first I've heard this detail. Of course, I'm not sure it would be Jasper II if the races were reversed, because it is still just so strange, and the killer being a woman, who was so wacked she kept apologizing just makes it, well, very peculiar. I would vote for murder by depraved indifference to human life.

[Exeter]

"When Mallard entered high school, she began volunteering in the church's nursery, helping care for the children and teaching them the Bible."

Apparently, Ms. Mallard was sick the day the Sunday School talked about Commandent# 6.

"She told the women that, after leaving the injured man in her garage, she had sex with her boyfriend, Terrance..."

Uh, better make that Commandents# 6 and 7...

[Paulus Invictus]

You mean about like that case in Texas when two white guys dragged a black man to death behind their truck?? Something like that? That got international and unending US media coverage. They even made a RAT TV ad about it for IGore. Don't see much of that sort of media coverage with this case...Is there a bias in the mmedia, perhaps? Naaaah!

[Osage Orange]

You wrote:

"The foremost villain of this story is the invention and popularization of the automobile. "

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"Foremost villain"?

Yeah...and guns kill.

[csvset]

Deportation to Rwanda or Zim.

With or without a machete?

[MeekOneGOP]

Maybe the former Phoenix bishop can minister to her though letters.

LOL !

Arizona bishop arrested in hit-and-run death -
case adds to problems facing Catholic leadership

[Libertina]

"All the stuff they're saying about her is bogus," said Marcus Anderson, another former co-worker. "She's cool. They make her seem like she's some kind of psycho. That's not Chante. Chante's got a heart.

"They're making her out to be like a monster. She's not. Dude, you just hit somebody, you're going to freak out. The first thing that's going to pop in your head is, `You're going to go to jail.' "
Could the general population be any more dumbed down? Why no report on the racist nature of this murder? Can you imagine the furor if a WHITE "dude" hit and left to die a BLACK woman (with such "heart"?) Riots all across the country. Maybe that's the problem. Caucasains just don't have a riot gene...

[Allegra]

You must not have heard about the trial a few years back of a black man by the name of Orinthal James Simpson who was accused of murdering a white woman who happened to be his wife.

That trial was held in California. This one will be held in Texas. Trust me; there is a world of difference.

[kayak]

I'd like to be on the ping list for this case, too. Thanks!

[MeekOneGOP]

I've added you. Thanks !

[AnnaZ]

I spoke with a woman who shared a cell for a short time with Ms. Mallard and she said Chante is a sociopath who feels she has not done anything wrong.

 

The article makes several references to how spoiled she was by her parents, especially her dad. She never "suffered" in any way for her irresponsibility. 

 

To spoil means to rot. Coddling kills.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks. I've added you now.

[Age of Reason]

I've never heard anything about his [the pedestrian-victim's] state of sobriety, but why would it matter considering what followed?

Because our laws place the onus completely on the driver simply because she may have been intoxicated.

It's possible that despite being intoxicated, she was doing OK when a drunk or otherwise intoxicated pedestrian thought he could walk through cars.

But simply because the driver might have been high, the accident would be totally her fault--even if a sober driver might not have been able to evade the man.

Being intoxicated, her punishment would probably have been draconian, and so she may have felt compelled to let him die to escape unfair punishment.

It may be that the state put her in an impossible situation.

Or it may well be that she is simply no good.

But if it were the state that put her in a bad situation, then the man's death might be attributed to the sate.

Just some incomplete thoughts on my part.

[weegee]

If people walked or rode bicycles our streets would be safer.

There are several accounts of bicycle/pedestrian accidents in this thread: Bicyclist Hits, Kills Pedestrian on Sidewalk

Being a ludite in Texas would mean that cities like Houston and the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex wouldn't even exist. Things are far to spread out to be accessible by such means of travel.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That trial was held in California. This one will be held in Texas. Trust me; there is a world of difference.

I sincerely hope you are right, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Jesse Jackson show up on the courthouse steps shrieking "racist racist racist."