Seems fair.
Good! She was lying through her teeth.
No doubt she killed the guy. But, I would have voted for aggravated manslaughter, with her authority as a cop an additional factor against her. From what I’ve gleaned from the news, of course, not from careful monitoring of the trial.
Here’s the proper link...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/amber-guyger-guilty-in-botham-jean-shooting-jury-finds
How do you walk into someone else apartment, think it’s yours and gun down a man?
What, you didn’t realize it wasn’t your furniture?
This whole thing stunk from the beginning.
I have been critical of the woman, but to me murder requires malice aforethought.
I thought she would get manslaughter.
W00T!
Not a surprise. She had to know it didn’t look good for her.
They had a good judge and a representative jury and they delivered a sound decision.
Time for her official University of North Texas coffee mug!
I was sad then a number a conservatives made a lot of excuses for her: “She was overworked, she was tired” etc. I see no excuse for her actions. I do have a concealed carry license, if I walk into somebody else home or apartment by mistake, and I kill them, sorry, its on me. If I go to a public washroom, and if my pistol might fall out of holster, discharge, and hit a bystander, its on me. If you can’t handle that responsibility, then don’t carry.
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.
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.
Justice served.
Now on to the penalty phase.
Jurors will now resume deliberating to decide Guyger’s punishment.
In Texas, murder carries a punishment of five to 99 years or life in
prison. The charge is not eligible for probation.
Another vote for negligent manslaughter.
This was just “racist” motivation. She must be a racist because the victim was black, ipso facto she lynched him on purpose.
There has been a lot of debate on various FR threads about whether she should have been charged with murder or manslaughter. In the end, she walked into someone else’s apartment and shot and killed the occupant. Maybe he punishment will not fit the crime; maybe it will. I just know that on this planet, there are lots of people deserving of pity and help, like those little kids on the Shriner’s Hospital commercials, or the kids at St. Jude’s. Amber Guyger is really way down my near the bottom of my list. Maybe she’ll find something redemptive to do with the rest of her life.
Good
Murder? She intentionally went there to kill him? Everything I heard is that she drunkenly went to the wrong apartment and thought he was a burglar.
Ehhh - with the other posters - manslaughter definitely.
This has been a strange story from the beginning.
Years ago a neighbor came into our house in the middle of the night thinking it was hers. She had a different driveway, different yard, different house. Yet she parked, came through the yard, opened the front door, came in the living room. At that point our dog was going nuts. We had been asleep in the back of the house. When we came down the hall she was yelling at the dog to get out...as if he was a stray. Only when my husband and I got to the living room did she realize she was in the wrong house. She even thought she had a stray dog in her house!
That neighbor was very, very drunk. She was also exhausted before getting drunk because she had been working a lot of hours, and she was under stress at work. I think all of that is why she ended up in our living room, ignoring all the signs that she was not at her own house.
Our neighbor was terribly embarrassed, but she was not an armed police officer thinking she was interrupting a burglary in progress at her house, so we didn’t get shot. We were armed but we were not drunk, confused so we didn’t shoot her.
From the start I have thought this police officer was likely exhausted, and under the influence of something when this happened. I did not follow the trial, so don’t know if any of that came out but to me that is the only explanation I can think of.
I do think it was murder, don’t believe for a minute she planned to murder her black neighbor because he was black- don’t believe she planned to murder the man for any reason. I think her mind was not functioning right and she did think she was stopping a burglary in her home.
I think she was rightfully convicted, obviously her condition at the time still does not give her the right to go into someone else’s home and kill them.