Volume I No. 84
 07-01-03
 Chante Mallard Gets 50 Years In Hell
 author: Vance Cureton
 © Copyright 2003

 What is it about the State of Texas these days. There seems to 
 always be some hideous story that escapes that sun-burned
 landscape and makes it into the national news. Current and former
 Dallas Cowboys repeatedly get arrested for serious drug dealing, 
 and other crimes of moral turpitude. The Supreme Court just 
 decided the "Texas Sodomy Case." And in this same period, 
 we have doe-eyed 27 year-old, Chante Mallard sentenced to 
 fifty years in the "big house" for the crime of murder.

 Texas used to be a state you escaped to. -- Not from. A state on
 the most desireable list such as the ever-more crowded Florida.
 Or a state such as sunny - in more ways than one - California.
 Or even Hawaii. The land of succulent pineapples and pristine 
 beaches of gleaming white sand.

 Texans take their crime seriously. This is Imperial George's old 
 stomping ground. He was the "Hanging Governor." Although, 
 of course they don't actually hang people anymore.

 But Texas is a state that is most happy to dispense justice in the 
 form of a sharp needle into the arm. So, what was Chante thinking 
 when she got behind the wheel of her car, while under the influence 
 of alcohol and escasty. -- And those are the drugs we know about.

 Poor Chante played catch with her car. And the person who got
 caught was a pitiable homeless man. His name was Gregory Biggs. 
 No one deserves to die in the undignfiied manner in which he
 met his death. Chante explained in court, "I didn't know what to 
 do." So she incomprehensibly left this dying man in her car, in 
 her garage, while he bled out.

 Wait a minute!

 Chante did do something. She called a couple of her friends. 
 Was it her fault that neither of these presumably sober 
 individuals had the gumption or good sense to call 911?
 Better to be a hated snitch, than to participate in an ugly crime 
 that only becomes more complicated and indefensible by the 
 minute.

 So is Chante's crime really murder? Or was it over-charged by
 a zealous prosecutor. In some parts of the country, those convicted
 of "a gun in somebody's face" kind of murder routinely receive 
 sentences of twenty years or less. John Gotti's good pal, Sammy 
 Bull Gravano { the man who snitched him out! } served only 5 years. 
 And this Gravano was a murderer nineteen times over!

 Poor confused Chante Mallard. She had the misfortune to live in 
 Texas. Mind you, Chante was certainly no angel. { She was a 
 habitual drug user } But did her life without a criminal history of 
 any kind deserve the least bit of consideration?

 Apparently not. Because a jury of her peers, showed Chante 
 absolutely no mercy. No compassion. No understanding.

 Nothing.

 Those Texans. What can you say? 

 They just love to make examples out of people. And so Chante's 
 burden is to live out a life in jail, without hope. Without a dream 
 for the future. For all practical purposes her life is over. Chante 
 Mallard won't be eligible for parole for at least twenty-five years
 from now, when she is a middle-aged woman of 52. And Texas 
 parole boards are need we say it --- Tough.

 How's that for throwing the book at a first time offender!

 Chante Mallard who fumbled her life away for the sake of a high,
 will serve as living proof to the entire world that Texas justice is 
 unlike any other in the US. If you do the crime. You will most 
 definitely, do the time.

 Every single minute.
 

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