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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,922 posts)
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:06 PM Aug 2020

The former Dallas police officer who killed Botham Jean is appealing her murder conviction

The ex-police officer who killed an unarmed Black man in his own Dallas apartment has filed an appeal for her conviction.

On September 6, 2018, Amber Guyger shot and killed 26-year-old Botham Jean. During the 2019 trial, Guyger's attorneys argued that she parked on the wrong floor of her building after a long shift at work and mistakenly entered the apartment above her own.

Insider previously reported that when Guyger walked into the wrong apartment she saw the silhouette of a figure standing in the dark and said "Let me see your hands!" before shooting her firearm.

Prosecutors opposed that argument, saying Jean was not a threat as he was watching television and eating a bowl of ice cream when Guyger entered his Dallas apartment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-dallas-police-officer-killed-162805804.html

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The former Dallas police officer who killed Botham Jean is appealing her murder conviction (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Oh gimme a freakin' break ... 10 years is getting off easy to begin with ... mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #1
Well of course she is. SamKnause Aug 2020 #2
I'm surprised she hasn't argued self defense in light of the fact that she was a trespasser no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #3
99.9% of murder conviction get appealed fescuerescue Aug 2020 #4
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Oh gimme a freakin' break ... 10 years is getting off easy to begin with ...
Sat Aug 8, 2020, 09:20 PM
Aug 2020

She's eligible for parole in 5

She lied right and left, and the jury found her, a nice-looking blond white LADY COP ... GUILTY ... of murder ... of a BLACK PERSON ... IN TEXAS ... in only 6 hours of deliberations!

If those facts don't tell you that some bad, bad shit must've went down ... I don't know what it would take.

Suck it the F*** UP, Amber.

no_hypocrisy

(46,083 posts)
3. I'm surprised she hasn't argued self defense in light of the fact that she was a trespasser
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 09:25 AM
Aug 2020

who was liable for breaking and entering.

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
4. 99.9% of murder conviction get appealed
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 09:50 AM
Aug 2020

The defendent becomes quickly impoverished (prison means no income), and gets a court appointed lawyer. Or the defendent is wealthy and uses all their resources to fight it.

So while all murder convictions get appealed, only a small % are successfully overturned.

So this is fully to be expected so far.

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