Posted on 10/02/2019 9:33:26 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
A former police officer who argued she had a right to use lethal force when she killed an innocent man after mistakenly entering his apartment has been convicted of murder.
Amber Guyger faces a lengthy prison sentence after a jury found her guilty of the murder of Botham Jean in Dallas on 6 September last year – a verdict Jean family attorneys hailed as a significant moment in the battle to hold police accountable.
Guyger is white. Jean was black. Guyger is the first Dallas police department officer to be convicted of murder since the 1970s, the Dallas Morning News reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Just looked up this case. Turns out, Texas doesn’t have “degrees” of murder.
It has capital murder and murder.
Manslaughter is committed recklessly without intent to kill.
But she testified that, when she pointed her gun at the victim, she intended to kill him.
Under Texas law, that is murder. That’s why she faces 5 years to life.
(At least that’s what I think I read. Maybe some Texans here will correct me if I’m wrong.)
So sorry for the victim and his family.
“You don’t have to lecture me about violent death. “
What ‘lecture’?
That may,or may not,be true in the eyes of the law. But there are circumstances where it's *not* true in the eyes of reasonable,thoughtful adults.
It’s not in the link that I accessed, unless it was on another page, which for some reason I couldn’t load.
Shouldn't a reasonable, thoughtful adult be following the law?
I'm almost certain that I've read that in Texas it's a *jury* that decides how a person is punished for a crime.I do believe that I've read of cases where a Texas jury has sentenced a person convicted of a serious crime to little or no punishment.
Of course a lawyer...particularly a Texas lawyer...might have something to say about my belief.
This woman went into an innocent man’s home uninvited and killed him. She’s guilty. End of story. The rest is just obfuscation.
“No motive = no “murder”...in my book at least. “
So if I go out a kill someone on the street on a whim with no motive that is not murder?
Ditto
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It’s not in the link that I accessed, unless it was on another page, which for some reason I couldn’t load.”
It’s in the posted excerpt:
Amber Guyger faces a lengthy prison sentence after a jury found her guilty of the murder of Botham Jean in Dallas on 6 September last year
Nope,not always. It's called "jury nullification".You've probably heard the term. But you may not know that many top legal scholars,including those involved in our early history,were supporters of it...in certain cases at least.
Not all prosecutors are entirely ethical.Not all witnesses are entirely correct...or honest.
Or let's put it another way...do you trust the ethical and patriotic intentions of the "prosecutors" in the House to treat the President fairly in the coming months?
No,I didn't think so.
“How’d you react if some cop entered your home and shot you?”
She said she asked him to put his hands up or something like that and he didn’t, but if she didn’t think her life was threatened then shooting the guy was criminal.
“She was in the apartment without the permission of the person residing there. That’s breaking in. “
IT MOST CERTAINLY NOT.
They just had to put “black” in the Title.
It seems that, yes, in Texas, a defendant can ask for the jury to decide sentencing...?
More here:
https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ugc/ten-odd-things-about-texas-criminal-trials
We’re not talking about the charge of murder, because we know she was convicted of that. We are talking about in WHAT DEGREE! First degree? Second Degree? Third Degree?
It's The Guardian, they don't miss a chance to denigrate America, and Yahoo is glad to help.
Local prosecutors ginned up the charges to make black race-baiters happy.
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