Woman Gets 50 Years for Windshield Death!
 

Don't know if anyone has read this yet, but this is CRAZY!
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Woman Gets 50 Years for Windshield Death
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By ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas - A jury sentenced a former nurse's aide to 50 years in prison Friday for leaving an accident victim to die a slow death while lodged in the broken windshield of her car.

Chante Mallard, 27, could have received anywhere from five years probation to life in prison for murdering Gregory Biggs. She and her family cried after the sentence was read.

"There's no winners in a case like this. Just as we all lost Greg, you all will be losing your daughter," Biggs' son, Brandon, told Mallard's family in a statement he read in court after the sentence was announced.

Brandon Biggs told Mallard he accepted the apology she tearfully offered on the witness stand, "but in return I hope that you will accept my forgiveness and I hope you will accept the forgiveness of Jesus Christ." Both families declined to comment afterward.

"My heart is heavy, truly heavy," said Norma Carethers, who counseled Mallard in jail as part of a chaplain program.

It took the jury less than an hour Thursday to convict Mallard, who after a night of drinking and using drugs struck Biggs, 37, with her car about 3 a.m. on Oct. 26, 2001. She drove home with the man crumpled in the windshield and left him in her garage to die.

Medical experts testified that Biggs was alive for one or two hours after being hit and probably would have survived had he received medical help.

Defense attorney Jeff Kearney said he was disappointed with the length of the sentence, which was announced after jurors deliberated about 2 1/2 hours. He said an appeal is planned.

"We certainly knew it would be a significant prison sentence based on all the evidence but we were hoping it would be somewhat lighter," he said.

Mallard told the jury Thursday that she was sorry, adding that she didn't call for help because she was scared and didn't know what to do. But prosecutor Richard Alpert said Friday that the case "is all about selfishness."

"Some people lack the moral fiber to do the right thing," he said. "A man is lying in her car moaning and bleeding and she needs someone to tell her what to do? Any decent person would call for help."

Kearney told jurors that Mallard would not have left the man to die if she hadn't been under the influence of alcohol, marijuana and Ecstasy.

Alpert, who had told jurors that Mallard deserved life in prison, said he was pleased with the sentence. "We just wanted to point out that this was a serious case and it needed a serious punishment," he said.

Brandon Biggs testified earlier in the week that his father took medication for bipolar disorder and mild schizophrenia. He said Biggs had been homeless for a couple of years after loaning a girlfriend money and then losing his truck and home.

Biggs' battered body was found in a park the day after he was hit. Authorities had no leads in the death until four months later, when one of Mallard's acquaintances called police and said she had talked about the accident at a party.

Officers went to Mallard's house and found the bloodstained, dented car. They also found the passenger seat burned in the back yard.

Before her trial began Monday, Mallard pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence by burning the bloody car seat. On that charge she was sentenced to 10 years in prison, to be served concurrently with the murder sentence.

A friend of Mallard's and his cousin pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence by dumping the body. Clete Jackson and Herbert Cleveland received prison sentences of 10 years and nine years, respectively.

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I think she DESERVED what she got! Hell that is worse than a hit and run! She had the opportunity to help the man but no she decided to let the man bleed to death.

I have NO sympathy for the sista. I have even less sympathy for the fools who helped her dump the body. They got off easy getting only 10 years

Seriously what was she thinking! I guess that's just it, she wasn't!

I have to put myself in the victims shoes, the one that HAS NOT and WILL NOT ever get a chance to say anything.

Let me get her story right-- Under the influence enough to not be aware to at LEAST drop that man off at the nearest hospital, but cunning enough to 'try' and dump him somewhere??!!

This should be a lesson to those that are DUI, or DWI, what happened to her should happen to ALL of 'em. What I don't like is that it doesn't nor will it.

Its an excessive sentence.

To think that that man COULD HAVE lived if she would have taken him to the hospital, is what makes me feel like the sentence was on point, if not, too little.

I understand some people are saying that the sentence of 50 years was too much, how so? Please explain.

In my opinion, leaving that man in the GARAGE and "hopefully no one will notice" attitude (and then to DUMP the body somewhere), deserves LIFE in prison. You are basically letting him die, not to mention YOU were the one who hit him in the first place while under the influence of a variety of things. She made MULTIPLE, I repeat, MULTIPLE mistakes in the entire incident. There was PLENTY of opportunities to avoid what was going to happen. Her fault. She'll have plenty of time to think about "Say no to drugs" now.

I think the two guys who got 10 and 9 years each was good for them too. That's the way people learn - through their mistakes, because teaching them is a waste of time, since information doesn't seem to sink in their brains.

The death penalty would have been too much.

This is a truly heinous crime. 50 years sounds about right

Thank you! And her brother is an EMT. He could have saved the man....but NOOOOOOOO!
She testified she was ashamed to tell her family

IMO they let her off easy giving her 50 years

The guys shoulda gotten more....for being STUPID!

I agree that 50 years is letting her off easy. I do not agree with the death penalty therefore I obviously wouldn't have wanted that. But I think she should have been put in prison for life, no parole. So she remember every single day of her life how truly immoral and sick she must be to have done this. saying that you were "too scared" to call for help doesn't make letting that guy die in her garage ok. Ugh. :( :(

Homeless Man Set Ablaze In An Attack Caught On Videotape

POSTED: 9:28 am EDT June 17, 2004

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A group of men set a homeless man ablaze as he slept in an attack captured on surveillance videotape.

Police were looking for up to eight men who participated in the attack Tuesday outside an agency that helps the homeless. The victim, Lucas Adama Wiser, 21, remained hospitalized Thursday with third-degree burns.


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Oh Lord, please be with this young man. Bad enough he's only 21 and is homeless, but to be set of fire... :( A homeless person is that - A PERSON!

Ohhh, I hope they catch the trash that did this to him! :mad:

This happened in my hometown. From what I heard, they found the people who they suspect set this innocent man on fire.

How is the man who was set on fire doing?

From what I hear, he suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns. He is going to make it though.