What she did sounds more like 2nd degree murder or possibly manslaughter in my state. She certainly is guilty of homicide. Makes me wonder how she got to be a cop in the first place.
Yup.
She certainly is guilty of homicide.
Yup.
Makes me wonder how she got to be a cop in the first place.
Affirmative action.
"Botham Jean's life was taken by the feminist movement and the women's rights movement. They have cursed our society with women in positions of power and responsibility they genetically cannot handle. All in the name of some perverse conception of equality. We are sitting ducks as a result of the political mental illnesses our elected officials seem to become afflicted with once they reach the halls of power. Our military is still at it. But those chickens have yet to come home to roost."224 posted on 10/1/2019, 1:29:21 PM by 4Runner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3782781/posts?page=224#224
I didn’t follow the trial all that much - but from what I heard it sounds like her legal team took a gamble that didn’t pay off.
They argued that she did intentionally kill Botham John, but that it wasn’t a crime. That she had made a “mistake of fact” and thought it was her apartment. Had it been her apartment, the shooting of an intruder would have been legal. Basically trying to say the only thing she did wrong was mistake his apartment for hers, and that wasn’t a crime.
But the downside is that she admitted to intentionally killing him - so it was either not guilty or murder.
She chose poorly.