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.
“Had it been her apartment, the shooting of an intruder would have been legal. “
Shooting intruders is NOT legal, even in Texas.
No kidding!