texas Court Denies the Appeal of Amber Guyger, the Ex-cop Who Killed Botham Jean In His Apartment

[Demovictory9]

Guyger was sentenced in 2019 for shooting Botham Jean in his own apartment a year earlier, arguing before and during her trial that she thought he was in her place and that she fired the fatal shots in self defense.

That implausible defense didn’t work in her favor then and it apparently doesn’t work now, as Texas’ Court of Appeals rejected Guyger’s request to have her case reviewed. A lower court had already tossed out her appeal in which she actually argued that she shouldn’t be in prison because she legitimately–but mistakenly–thought she was in her own apartment when she shot Jean, who was literally on his own couch eating ice cream when she barged in.

Oh the Karen of it all.

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In a legal statement in response to the original appeal, Creuzot’s office was terse: “When, intending to kill, you shoot an unarmed man in the chest while he’s sitting on his couch eating ice cream, that’s murder regardless of where you think you are when you do it.”

It could be worse for Guyger, who at the time was a Dallas police officer. She becomes eligible for parole for the first time next year, which is a helluva lot sooner than Jean will be eligible to do anything.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/texas-court-denies-the-appeal-of-amber-guyger-the-ex-cop-who-killed-botham-jean-in-his-apartment/ar-AAVJwxc?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ee39da216ae642c7a8cb5da86ec1221c

[NBachers]

1. I hope every parole hearing is filled with people demanding that she stay in prison.

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2. Something still smells about her story to me.

Who makes a mistake about their own apartment?

[Sherman A1]

3. As I recall she was pretty drunk at the time

Got off on the wrong floor of her apartment building and made her “mistake”. At least that is the story I remember from whenever this occurred….

Pretty much all BS to me and I don’t believe that she deserves to be paroled so soon.

[brush]

4. She must've been out of her head drunk to make...

such a big mistake, but then to have the presence of mind to pull her gun and blast away...?

But she drove home ok.

Well, I don't know.

Still smells IMO.

[Sherman A1]

5. Smells enough for her to have been convicted

The jury didn’t buy the story she was selling.

[Aristus]

18. I don't get how she could be drunk enough to mistake someone else's apartment for her own,

but sober enough to nail a kill-shot with a pistol from across the room.

Her bullshit story not only doesn't pass the smell-test, it doesn't let anyone get near enough to the testing facility to smell it.

[The Jungle 1]

8. That is the first I heard about her being drunk so I looked it up.

The toxicology report presented at trial stated she had no drugs or alcohol in her system.
I still believe her sentence is way to light. All you have to do is turn it around. Black man walked in and kills a white woman! Yea he would be going away for a long time.

[yardwork]

10. That's because the police waited for her to sober up before they tested her.

If I recall, part of her defense was that she was so drunk she didn't know where she was.

[The Jungle 1]

12. I found nothing that supports your claim.

I am not saying it is not true. But please provide a source.

[yardwork]

13. Edited to say my memory might be wrong on this.

My recollection about her defense may be wrong.

[The Jungle 1]

14. Ok so we will leave it as an unsupported claim.

I did research before I posted which is why I am contesting your statements. What I found is that she worked a long shift was getting home late and texting her lover. The next day the chief stated that she was tested. However the time of the test was not given. I would think if your statement was true it would have been a huge part of the trial. The time of the test would have also been a big deal at trial. I found no articles about her being impaired.
None of this changes the fact that she got a very light sentence for her crime. It also does not change the American reality that if it was a Black man shooting a blond white woman he would have gotten life. We are making progress to end racism but it is painfully slow.

[yardwork]

16. Her actions were inexcusable, whether impaired or not.

There was a lot of early speculation that she was impaired, but maybe that was incorrect. She was not too impaired to shoot and kill an unarmed person sitting in his own apartment. Even accepting her claim that she thought it was her apartment, her response showed incredibly poor judgement. She should have backed away and called for assistance if she really thought there was an intruder in her home. Instead she charged in with her gun blazing.

We'll probably never know the true story. I agree that if this were a black cop killing a while woman, the book would face been thrown at him. She got off easy.

[USALiberal]

9. Then what do you think the motive is??

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15. I have no idea. But her story is shakey as hell.

Who knows if they had a beef before as they lived in the same building.

[exboyfil]

6. LEOs circled the wagon on this one

Including unfortunately the Texas Rangers whose job it is to investigate local and county. The coverup started in the car where instead of adversarially questioning her, the LEOs guided her in her responses.

The Texas Ranger was all on board for it being a justified shooting. They made sure the one thing that made Bothan Jean look bad, his user weight pot, got out to the press. They shouldn't even have searched his apartment. The man was a Christian "saint". How the LEOs hated that.

She admitted to knowing that someone was in "her" apartment. She went in as an LEO. She went in with the intent of shooting whoever was in "her" apartment. She wanted a notch on her weapon and she got one. She didn't follow protocol as a LEO which would have been to call for backup, announce, and wait for back up. She could just as easily have shot a maintenance guy in "her" apartment.

[yardwork]

11. Exactly.

[Demovictory9]

17. Yes..once again social media shined the light

[2naSalit]

7. She's already had...

A shitload of special treatment and still got convicted, she can do her time and that is that. That young man she murdered does have any time so she can spend hers where she can't kill innocent people anymore.

I hope she serves every day she was sentenced to serve, no exceptions because her sentence wasn't long enough in the first place.