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Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison
KRLD Radio ^ | OCTOBER 02, 2019 - 4:04 PM

Posted on 10/02/2019 2:10:44 PM PDT by conservative98

DALLAS (KRLD) - Amber Guyger has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the murder of her neighbor Botham Jean.

Jurors were considering the sentence for a former Dallas police officer whom they convicted of murder for shooting her neighbor in his apartment, which she says she mistook for her own unit one floor below.

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To: central_va

” it was an accident and not a crime.”

No accident!


41 posted on 10/02/2019 2:41:26 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: mulligan

Last I heard, the average sentence for murder was 7 years. that was 20 years ago that I heard that, and mandatory sentence may be longer now, but that was the average for murder 20 years ago. 7 years.


42 posted on 10/02/2019 2:42:20 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

I have cousins that are prison guards. Convicted police are kept out of the general population. Otherwise it is a death sentence.


43 posted on 10/02/2019 2:42:54 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: conservative98

Yes, she is eligible for parole in 5 years if her sentence was 10. According to TDC website.


44 posted on 10/02/2019 2:42:55 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: KobraKai

The judge just hugged Amber as well and gave her a bible.


45 posted on 10/02/2019 2:43:29 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

“Involuntary manslaughter is what I’m referring too.”

Not a Texas statute.


46 posted on 10/02/2019 2:43:39 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: central_va

People go to jail for accidentally killing people all the time. If it is out of your control, such as the defective steering wheel falls off your car and you crash and kill somebody, there is no crime and you don’t go to jail.

Plenty of people are killed by someone nearby cleaning a gun. That is accidental too, but it is negligent, so it is a crime usually with jail time.

She was negligent. Also, pulling her gun and shooting the man was no accident. I give her the benefit of the doubt that she thought he was in her apartment. I mean, why would she DELIBERATELY go into a stranger’s apartment and murder him? It makes no sense.

But she negligently killed him by intentionally shooting him. That is manslaughter at best and requires jail time. If somebody dies and you are clearly at fault and criminally negligent, you will go to jail.


47 posted on 10/02/2019 2:46:32 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (What profits a man if he gains the world but loses his soul?)
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To: MeganC
Ten years and out in three.

I believe she needs to serve at least half her term before becoming eligible for parole.

48 posted on 10/02/2019 2:48:54 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: conservative98

What she did deserves at least ten years. In Texas, manslaughter (reckless, but absence of intent) gets you two to twenty.


49 posted on 10/02/2019 2:49:00 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: central_va
Even taking into account how bad the facts are in this case, it was an accident and not a crime.

And that cop in Minneapolis who shot that unarmed woman? Should that have been settled in civil court? Was that a accident and not a crime too?

50 posted on 10/02/2019 2:51:44 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: central_va

Sigh.

In my younger days, I almost pounded a guy once for pulling out directly in front of me with no warning causing me to careen out of control into a snow bank. I was astonished that he pulled out, and as I looked back, he was flipping me the bird...

I actually chased the guy down, jumped out of my car when it was still moving and it ran into the back of his car, and I grabbed him by the lapel of his coat and cocked my fist and the whole time he is jabbering and pointing in the air...I remember yelling at him “WHAT? WHAT? WTF ARE YOU BLABBERING ABOUT?”

I didn’t hit him, and he was pointing to a one-way sign. I was late for work after a snowstorm, and in my distracted state, I had put on my blinker and taken a right turn down a street, one of a dozen streets that look exactly the same, but have alternating one way signs.

I had turned down the wrong street. I had one of those cars where the blinker often did not automatically turn off...poor design. So, my right hand turn was still on. As I proceeded down the street, the guy was stopped at a street to my right, and just pulled out in front of me to go left up the way I had just come the wrong way down that one way street.

I sat there blinking while my brain processed this, I let go of his lapel. We chatted for a minute.

He said people come the wrong way down that street all the time and pull into where he was pulling out...a shortcut so they don’t have to drive all the way around the block. Because my stuck blinker was indicating a right hand turn, he thought I was one of those people, so...he pulled out.

We shook hands and parted, he saw how it went down. I would have probably been fine going into that snow bank and seeing him drive away, but seeing him (who I thought broke every rule of the road by pulling out in front of me with no warning) stopping his car and flipping me the bird just made me see red.

I had never done anything like that before or since.

I often think of how my life could have changed that day. I could have severely injured him or even killed him. I could have gone to jail. I could have lost everything.

And all because I was distracted and took a turn the wrong way down a one way street.

When I saw this story a while back, I could visualize it. A tough day, stressful. You put your key in, open the door, and there is someone you don’t know looking for all the world like they are rifling through your drawers.

That doesn’t in any way excuse her shooting the guy. But I see how that could happen. You’re distracted, get off on the wrong floor, or walk to the wrong door. The doors all look alike as do the insides of the apartment, you walk in and everything, your life, the other person’s life, it all goes south.

I sympathize with the victim and his loved ones. But this racial element, “The shooting drew widespread attention because of the strange circumstances and because it was one in a string of shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers”, “One of the Jean family lawyers hailed the verdict as “a victory for black people in America” and “The jury was largely made up of women and people of color” makes me think this was a racially and emotionally motivated prosecution.

I don’t know. Should she be punished in some way, I think so. She shouldn’t be carrying a gun. It was clearly manslaughter. But murder? But trying her as a murderer and sending her to jail just...it just seems wrong to me. Seemed like a stupid and unfortunate accident.


51 posted on 10/02/2019 2:52:22 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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That what I thought too, but there are different standards of murder:

https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/homicide/second-degree-murder/

52 posted on 10/02/2019 2:52:44 PM PDT by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

I just find the introduction of the racial element to brand her a murderer to be a “Black Lives Matter” thing. And unpalatable as such.


53 posted on 10/02/2019 2:54:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Let’s just say that while in prison, she will be encouraged to eat at the Y.


54 posted on 10/02/2019 2:56:21 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: DoodleDawg

It’s never a crime when cops shoot someone.
/s


55 posted on 10/02/2019 2:57:39 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: central_va

It would only be considered an accident by those that believe in Special Rights for some because of the clothes they wear and their employment.

If she didn’t own a Magic Blue Costume at the time, it would have been a Death Penalty case and there would have been No question as to wether or not it was Murder

Why do you believe special people deserve special rights?? The Stasi had Special Rights.


56 posted on 10/02/2019 2:58:39 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Cops have NO friends in prison. Unless she is going to Club Fed, which I assume she is going to some female ass pounding prison, then she is going to have it very hard.

No club “fed” since this is a state case. She’ll be in PC (protective custody) during her stay. PC will probably have separate schedules for yard time, meals, etc. Also I’d venture to guess women’s prison will be less risky then men’s.

Now if she has to sit in jail awaiting transport to prison, I’d guess that would be the most dangerous time.
57 posted on 10/02/2019 3:00:56 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: outpostinmass2

That was powerfy


58 posted on 10/02/2019 3:07:50 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: conservative98

No where near enough!


59 posted on 10/02/2019 3:08:37 PM PDT by Dave911
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To: outpostinmass2

Remarkable, isn’t it? I wish we could all follow his lead in this tragic situation.


60 posted on 10/02/2019 3:12:09 PM PDT by Sooner Gal
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