Posted on 10/01/2019 10:33:27 AM PDT by Envisioning
And where did I mischaracterize it?
I’m pretty sure that if I walked into what I thought was my apartment and EVERYTHING LOOKED DIFFERENT, I’d quickly realize I’d walked into someone ELSE’S apartment!
I don’t care what her toxicology test revealed, SHE’S EITHER BLIND, DRUNK OR STONED.
She should’ve IMMEDIATELY RETREATED!
Most likely to be overturned in any appeal.
The most that she was guilty of is criminally negligent homicide. Murder is WAY over the top.
Another armchair lawyer.
What “crime” was she in the commission of when she killed Jean?
If the victim had shot back and killed the police officer who broke into the apartment he wouldn’t have had a chance at a trial.
Another armchair lawyer.
What “crime” was she in the commission of when she killed Jean?
FReepers cheering this verdict are in full agreement with the deviants at DU.
“Breaking and Entering” isn’t an offense listed in the Texas Penal Code.
Try again, armchair lawyer.
Absolute BS. He was well within his right to use deadly force on what he thought was an intruder into his residence at night.
“Breaking and Entering” isn’t an offense listed in the Texas Penal Code.
Try again, armchair lawyer.
Thanks, didn’t know that, douchebag.
“””FReepers cheering this verdict are in full agreement with the deviants at DU.”””
When all other arguments fail, comparing FReepers to deviants at DU does not help your cause.
If the victim had shot back and killed the police officer who broke into the apartment he wouldn’t have had a chance at a trial.
Absolute BS. He was well within his right to use deadly force on what he thought was an intruder into his residence at night
Even if he survived to tell his story, there would be a trial.
Criminal trespass. Burglary. Case can be made for both.
The verdict in this case, and the fact that this case went to trial at all, is marinated in “racial justice” and PC perversion of law. Yes, it was a horrible incident where an innocent man was killed. It was HOMICIDE. But not all homicide is murder. It was an accident, just like any auto accident where people are killed in the U.S. almost DAILY were factors of error by drivers involved are not deemed criminal offenses.
There was no way that this case COULDN’T have ended the way it did. The jurors were hamstrung against ruling any other way, but threat of violence and massive civil rioting if they ruled “the wrong way.”
Get this. The fake “Black Lives Matter” goons were in the hall strutting about and looking for the next illegitimate victim. This will embolden them to a horrific degree.
Look up the elements of the offense for both in the Penal Code and, if you are intellectually honest, you’ll see that neither of these would meet the definitions.
Criminal intent MUST be apparent and proven. It wasn’t.
There aren’t any winners here. A man, who should be alive, is dead, and a woman who never should have shot him, and WOULDN’T have, if she’d been more alert, is going to be sent away, to a decidedly miserable place, for several years.
What would YOU do, if confronted by a man with a gun pointed at you, when you thought you were in the doorway of your own apartment, which in dim light, looks like every other apartment? I think she should have been convicted of manslaughter, NOT murder.
I fully agree that there aren’t any winners here. It was a horrific incident where an innocent man in his own apartment was killed. And I won’t deny that Guyger made errors, errors which were made by many other residents in the apartment complex. But she was not INTENDING to shoot an innocent man in his own apartment. Does anyone think that she thought she would get away with such an irrational scheme? And was there some kind of “moment of passion” that caused this, other than alarm at an erroneous realization?
And I agree, manslaughter, or even less, criminally negligent homicide, would have been a more appropriate charge. That’s why the murder conviction is so over-the-top and will likely be overturned on appeal.
I’m predicting that the BLM mob will still riot and cause civil unrest; in “celebration.”
In California, too. Intent doesn't matter in those kinds of cases. Only results.
In Texas, murder is committed if you negligently kill someone in the commission of a crime. She committed the crime when she entered his apartment without his consent. Again - it doesn't matter if it is a mistake.
And when you look at the facts of the trial - there are a lot of things here that are really not adding up. Her texts before, her violation of police protocol, her inability to notice the surroundings. LOTS. I have worked a 52-hour shift in a high-stress combat environment. I would not have made that mistake. As she readily admitted in a text she sent to her partner, as the man laid dying on the floor, she "f_cked up."
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