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windshield death case
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By Angela K, Brown
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT WORTH, Texas —
Defense attorneys started their
case Wednesday in the murder
trial of a nurse’s aide charged
with hitting a homeless man on a
highway, driving home and
parking in her garage, where the
man died still lodged in the car
windshield.
Before the state rested its
case against Chante Mallard
after noon Wednesday, the vic-
s son told jurors that his
father was a self-employed brick
layer who took medication for
bipolar disorder and mild schiz
ophrenia.
Brandon Biggs said that after
his parents divorced when he
was young, he lived with his
mother in Albany and saw his
father regularly.
Gregory Biggs, 37, lost his
truck and house after loaning
money to a girlfriend nearly two
years before his death Oct. 26,
. But he got other jobs and
in touch with his son, who
met him a few times at a down
town Fort Worth homeless shelter
1 took him to movies and the
11, Brandon Biggs testified.
However, Brandon lost touch
:h his father in the summer of
)1.
“I would say he was very
hardworking. He was very
friendly, although he didn’t have
many friends,” said Brandon
Biggs, 20, a church ministries
major at Southwestern
Assemblies of God University in
Waxahachie. “He was very, very
loving, I would say.”
One juror cried and another
dabbed at her eyes as Brandon
> spoke. Mallard, 27, also
appeared to cry during the testi-
my.
Mallard, who faces a life sen
tence if convicted of murder,
pleaded guilty earlier this week
to tampering with evidence and
faces a sentence of up to 10
years on that charge.
Earlier Wednesday, the
Tarrant County medical examiner
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Chante Jawan Mallard enters the district Court in Fort Worth on Wednesday.
Mallard is charged with murder in the death of Gregory Glenn Biggs.
testified that Biggs probably died
about two hours after he was hit
— and that Mallard’s driving
home aggravated his injuries.
Biggs’ right arm, right thigh
bone and right shin bones were
broken, Dr. Nizam Peerwani tes
tified. The lower part of his left
leg was nearly amputated, and
he had gouges or cuts in his
torso. It’s unclear exactly how
Biggs was in the car, Peerwani
said, but his head had been
thrust down in the passenger
seat or floorboard and his torso
was up against the dashboard.
“He was obviously in severe,
excruciating pain,” Peerwani
said.
Despite that, the medical
examiner said, Biggs could have
survived if he had received med
ical attention. Biggs did not suf
fer from any serious medical
condition before he was hit, and
the crash did not cause injuries
to his brain, spine, heart, lungs,
liver or kidneys, Peerwani said.
Biggs’ injuries would not
have prevented him from mov
ing his hands and talking, the
medical examiner said. Mallard
told police that after parking in
her garage, she apologized to
Biggs, who was moaning.
Biggs’ body was found Oct.
27, 2001, in a park. Mallard’s
former lover, Clete D. Jackson,
and his cousin Herbert Tyrone
Cleveland have pleaded guilty to
tampering with evidence in con
nection with dumping Biggs’
body. Jackson was sentenced to
10 years; Cleveland, nine years.
As part of the plea bargain,
both agreed to testify at
Mallard’s trial, but prosecutors
never called Cleveland.
Harris County considers
entry into rail business
HOUSTON (AP) — Harris County should
form a commuter rail authority that would service
the busy U.S. Highway 290 corridor linking cen
tral Houston to northwestern suburbs, a commis
sioner said Wednesday.
Commissioner Steve Radack, in a luncheon
speech to the West Houston Association, pitched
the concept of improving a lightly used Union
Pacific line to handle passenger traffic. The line,
an old Southern Pacific freight route, runs from
near Memorial Park along U.S. 290 and eventual
ly into neighboring Waller County and on to
College Station.
“Compared to light rail, this is something that
is much cheaper and certainly something that
could be done posthaste,” Radack told the
Houston Chronicle for Wednesday’s editions.
“It’s something that we don’t necessarily need
to depend on Metro.”
Metro’s long-term transit plan includes 55
miles of light rail and an eight-mile commuter
spur headed southwest to Missouri City along
another Union Pacific line.
Joe Adams, a Union Pacific representative, said
the line is tailor-made for expanded use.
“There is also vacant land along it where
you could put commuter stations and park and
ride facilities,” Adams said. “This is the one
line that presents the best opportunity for com
muter rail.”
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AUSTIN — Former Texas
Attorney General Dan Morales,
who awaits trial on federal fraud
charges, was jailed Wednesday
after a judge revoked his bond,
saying there was inconsistent
testimony in the case.
Morales, 46, pleaded inno
cent in April to charges that he
and Marc Murr, a friend and an
attorney, tried to obtain hun
dreds of millions of dollars in
legal fees for Murr resulting
from the state’s $17.3 billion
settlement with the tobacco
industry in 1998.
At that court hearing,
Morales sought a public defend
er to represent him, claiming he
didn’t have the $1 million it
Would take to hire private
lawyers to defend him.
A financial statement later
with the court showed he
almost $1 million in assets
and about $925,000 in debts.
Prosecutors said Wednesday
that while Morales was out on a
personal recognizance bond, he
filed loan applications to buy
two cars, a Lexus and Mercedes.
On one application, he wrote
that he made $20,000 a month;
on the other application, he
wrote that he made $20,800 a
month, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors asked U.S.
District Judge Sam Sparks to
revoke Morales’ bond since he
claimed in court that he had no
income, but claimed income on
the loan applications.
Sparks ordered Morales’
bond revoked and remanded
him into custody. A court hear
ing was set for 1:30 p.m.
Thursday.
It did not list his income or
other financial information
detailing why he would need a
public defender, which he was
required to submit in a sealed
record to the judge in April.
Morales faces prison terms
of five to 30 years on each
count of the 12-count indict
ment, if convicted.
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