Woman Gets 60 Years for Windshield Death

Woman Gets 60 Years for Windshield Death



A jury sentenced Chante Mallard to 60 years in prison Friday for leaving an accident victim to die a slow death while lodged in the broken windshield of her car.

After about 2 1/2 hours of deliberations, jurors sentenced Mallard to 50 years for murder and 10 years for tampering with evidence by burning a bloody car seat. She pleaded guilty to the tampering charge before her trial began Monday.

Mallard, 27, could have received anything from five years probation to life in prison for murdering Gregory Biggs.

'There's no winners in a case like this,' Biggs' son, Brandon, said in court after the sentence was read.

Earlier, Brandon Biggs did not ask jurors for a particular sentence but told them he'd never get the chance to share important milestones with his father.

It took jurors less than an hour Thursday to convict Mallard, who after a night of drinking and using drugs struck Biggs, 37, while he walked along a highway 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 treatment.

Mallard tearfully 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 laying in her car moaning and bleeding and she needs someone to tell her what to do? Any decent person would call for help.'