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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I agree. I had tears streaming down my face.
Accident??? Are you kidding? This was supposed to be a trained law enforcement professional not some scared out of their mind civilian.
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For this type of murder, I'd guess it is. It wasn't a premeditated act. It was an act of extreme negligence, which is often charges as manslaughter.
If it was a mistake and you weren’t going in there trying to kill someone, you’d probably get 10 years, too, or maybe less or possibly nothing.
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I am sorry, but I do not believe that.
I also believe the mistake excuse is as thin as can be. (wrong floor, wrong apartment, bright red door mat indicating wrong apartment, no notice of wrong apartment once door was open even though all décor is obviously different, man sitting eating ice cream seen as a threat, ect, ect, ect)
You or I throw that defense up in court, and our fate is sealed (as it should be for our “mistake”)
He was sitting down on the couch eating a bowl of ice cream. Typical burglar behavior.
Not to mention that she didn't take cover and call for backup; didn't point the gun at him and tell him to put his hands up; and, after she shot him, didn't try to give him any first aid.
Wonder how much the brother got from the victim’s life insurance policy?...double indemnity?
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I tried to put myself into her shoes...I have unknowingly SEVERAL TIMES went to the wrong car in a parking lot and tried to get in thinking it was mine. One time I even had a cop attempting to use one of his metal things to open up the door through the window! Thank God he failed because only as he walked away and suggested I call AAA did I realize it was NOT my car!
However, knowing all that, knowing you could get doors mixed up if all the same in an apartment building, her texts which they read in court destroyed her. She came off as a massive racist and I am sure it did not help her case at all.
“What was the reason they think this woman killed this poor guy?”
A doctor on Fox today said it sounds that she believed she was walking in to her own apartment. When she saw a stranger there, the fight-or-flight thing probably kicked in, and she chose fight. Still, as a cop she should have better instincts. I don’t see murder, but something at a lower degree.
It sure was a convoluted way to murder someone. After some of the obvious murder cases who’s verdicts have come in as manslaughter or something less than murder, I was a little surprised she got convicted of murder. But I actually hadn’t even heard about this case until this week or last week when the trial came up and I heard about it in passing.
She’s got that meth-head look.
If it is/was a victory, it should be a victory for ANYONE that would have the nerve to sit in his/her own living room, to make sure the IDIOT that came into his/her house and shot him/her dead was properly ‘punished’.
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This!
Christian teaching.
‘Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespassed against us’....
I assumed they put cops into general population unless the Police Department pulled strings. That is news to me that cops go into protective custody. That would be a lot easier for her to endure.
Women’s prison is certainly easier. Women are not as violent or aggressive as men. After watching all the youtubes of street gang women and black women fighting like their lives depended on it, I would think there is still a danger in women’s prison. Women can be flat vicious and they never forget.
If she is not in with the general population then she would have an easy time of it. Just put in your time.
Thanks for the information. I had no clue but it makes sense. I knew inmates have it out for cops in prison. I didn’t know they never make it out alive if not in PC.
I think it was an excessive sentence for what was clearly a mistake.
This is really an abhorrent take. Feel good about yourself on how clever you are? Or rather, think you are?
It was a mistake to barge into the man’s apartment in the first place.
It was arguably a mistake to shoot him the first time.
It was murder to shoot him the second time.
This woman should never have been on any police force.
She got off with a light sentence given what she’s done.
From the story:
“The basic facts of the unusual shooting were not in dispute throughout the trial. Guyger, returning from a long shift that night, entered Jean’s fourth-floor apartment and shot him. He had been eating a bowl of ice cream before she fired.
Guyger said she parked on the wrong floor and mistook Jean’s apartment for her own, which was directly below his, and mistook him for a burglar. In the frantic 911 call played repeatedly during the trial, Guyger said “I thought it was my apartment” nearly 20 times. Her lawyers argued that the identical physical appearance of the apartment complex from floor to floor frequently led to tenants going to the wrong apartments.”
Nobody is perfect.
The article says she was convicted of “murder.”
First degree murder? Second degree? Third degree?
I can’t find where the article says.
Did the jury buy the argument that she committed premeditated murder?
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