TX - Gregory Biggs, 37, hit by car, stuck in windshield, Fort Worth, 26 Oct 2001

[Jeana (DP)]

Remember this case? Here's an update:

FORT WORTH — An appeals court upheld the murder conviction of a woman who ran over a homeless man and then left him to die after he became lodged in her windshield.


Chante Mallard The Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth upheld Chante Mallard's conviction on Thursday. Her attorney had argued that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to convict her in the death of Gregory Glenn Biggs.

Mallard was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to 50 years in prison. She also received ten years for tampering with evidence for helping dump Biggs' body and burning one of her car seats in an attempted cover-up.

Robert Ford, Mallard's appellate attorney, says he will take the case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

The prosecution argued that Mallard, by hitting Biggs, caused his death by driving home with the man in her windshield and then hiding him in her garage.

The appeals court judges said evidence showed that the initial impact did not kill Biggs, but that Mallard's actions afterward ensured his death.

www.dallasnews.com


I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY'S "STRATEGY."


"Her attorney had argued that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to convict her . . . . "



THERE'S A MAN STUCK IN HER WINDSHIELD. That's insufficient evidence????????

 

[Sherlock]

I do remember!!! How horrific. Wasn't she drinking or something? And decided she was too scared to call police so she parked the car in her garage and let him bleed to death?

Sherlock

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Gregory Biggs

On October 27, 2001, close to 9:30 a.m., an off-duty firefighter called 911 to report a dead body in the city’s Cobb Park. Members of the Fort Worth Police Department (F.W.P.D.), including Detective Mike Carroll, responded to the scene in what initially appeared to be an F.S.R.A. (Failure to Stop and Render Aid), commonly known as a hit-and-run.

Carroll found the body “covered in shards of glass.”

“The leg was very badly contorted,” Carroll recalled. “His left foot was lying across his stomach.”

That changed on February 25, 2002 — four months after Biggs’ death — when an anonymous woman called Tarrant County dispatchers, reporting that her “best friend’s homegirl” had confessed to the collision, as heard in a recording published by Prosecuting Evil.

The caller identified the suspect as Chante Mallard, a C.N.A. (certified nursing assistant) who worked at several local medical care facilities.

“This woman who called into the police, she’d been at a party and heard [Mallard] tell this story about being at the club,” said lead prosecutor Richard Alpert. “She was drinking some at the bar; she had half of an ecstasy pill, and when she drove, she hit ‘some white guy’ with her car.”

How a Healthcare Worker’s Actions Following Fatal 2001 Hit-and-Run Amounted to Murder | Oxygen

Learn more about the arrest and trial of Chante Mallard, as told in Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler.

www.oxygen.com