Defense Says Vagrant’s Death Wasn’t Murder
From Times Wire Services
Jurors in Fort Worth saw pictures of the twisted, bruised and bloody body of a homeless man as a former nurse’s aide went on trial on charges she hit him with her car, drove home with his body lodged in the windshield and left him to die in her garage.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the murder case both said Chante Jawan Mallard, 27, took drugs and drank heavily in the hours before she hit Gregory Biggs on a highway on Oct. 26, 2001. The defense says it was an accident, not murder.
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