Posted on 10/01/2019 8:55:22 AM PDT by CaptainK
Amber Guyer guilty of murder, Just announced on FOX News
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She testified the door was ajar.
What, you didn’t realize it wasn’t your furniture?
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That’s what I didn’t get about it. I haven’t following this closely but it’s really strange.
In fairness to her, the apartment is in the same place and orientation as hers and just in a different place. They showed on TV some video from the crime scene after, and the guy had three pictures above the sofa. All I could think was that it’d have to be one hell of a coincidence to for her to have similar decor in all such details. Furniture arrangement, color, etc.
Also, I thought about this. If I came home and saw someone sitting on my couch, the very first thing I would do, along with being startled, is study their face. One of these things is if this is an old friend who broke in and decided to crash, or perhaps an acquaintance of someone I know with a key to the premises. My first reaction wouldn’t be shoot to kill and ask questions later. It would be to take an immediate defensive assessment as well as figure out who the hell this person is and if they are alone, but not in all those words.
Something just doesn’t rub right about walking into what you think is your apartment and slaughtering the occupant on sight.
I thought she would get manslaughter.
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The majority of blacks on the jury must have decided to stick it to the white woman cop.
The problem with convicting on anything less than murder is that the only evidence to support it was the defendant’s own testimony. That testimony is self-serving and unverifiable by definition.
I still think she was drunk at the time.
There -- fixed it.
You'd think once she got inside she'd have recognized it wasn't HER apartment.....was she a politically correct hire?...
Ridiculous. At the same time the blacks were demanding she be charged with murder, and she was, there was a story out in a northern city about two black teens that got into a fist fight. It was broken up but they got on the phone and agreed to meet and finish the fight. One took a knife to a fist fight and stabbed the other one to death. Was he charged with 1st or 2nd degree murder? Oh no,manslaughter. I guess the two tier justice system has now moved blacks to the winning tier.
” But, I would have voted for aggravated manslaughter,”
What is aggravated manslaughter?
From what I read, she was sexting her boyfriend (a married cop).
I also heard a report days after the shooting she was still engaged in texting with her married boyfriend.
She seems removed from the outside world.
“How do you walk into someone else apartment, think it’s yours and gun down a man?”
I can understand being drunk and being on the wrong floor in an apartment building with all the hallways and doors looking alike...although they probably all have numbers. But I don’t buy drawing and shooting the occupant. What would have been wrong with the faux coppette politely saying excuse me sir..I’ve got the wrong address and moving on.
I almost guarantee she will win a new trial on appeal.
The prosecution didn’t even suggest a motive for going to Mr. Jean’s apartment; therefore, they couldn’t have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that she had malice aforethought. But we shall see.
I think she needs to go to prison to pay, but it should have been for manslaughter or negligent homicide.
Did they ever explain what the motive would be for murder versus manslaughter?
Wow. What you remember, and what actually happened are not the same.
“She testified the door was ajar.“
Had she said the door was a bottle, she would have been acquitted.
The investigation showed that his latch was not installed properly and did not properly close and latch, the majority of the time.
As a matter of fact, several other apartments in this complex had the same issue.
Justice served.
Now on to the penalty phase.
She might have been lying about some details but there’s no way she committed murder. There was zero evidence introduced about any intent previous to the shooting, because there was none. It was a terrible, reckless mistake. But a mistake none-the-less. Manslaughter, yes. Murder absolutely not.
Yes she went in alone AFTER she broke into the apartment because her key didn’t work. I once did the same thing and the key didn’t work. However I didn’t try to break into the apartment on my own. I decided I was going to call a manager. But then I changed my mind when I realized that I was at the wrong door.
This girl thought she was a tough cop and didn’t need to call any manager but that she would pull the “I am a cop” cocky attitude that is so common among Dallas PD officers. So she used her equipment to break in. And then when she noticed the “burglar” she again had this same attitude issue. And that’s when she made the tragic mistake. Any decent cop would have stepped away and called for backup, even if the have a big attitude & its their own place.
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