Posted on 08/08/2020 8:07:35 AM PDT by conservative98
Amber Guyger, the ex-Dallas cop who was convicted in October of murdering her unarmed black neighbor, Botham Jean, is appealing her ten-year prison sentence.
Guyger has claimed she fired in self-defense in 2018, when she pushed open door to Jean’s apartment — one floor above her own — in the mistaken belief it was her own. She found Jean on his own couch, watching TV and eating ice cream.
Her attorneys are claiming that there was not enough evidence to fully convict her of murder, according to CNN.
“She had the right to act in deadly force in self-defense since her belief that deadly force was immediately necessary was reasonable under the circumstances,” her lawyers stated in the appeal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
One man watching tv eating ice cream on the sofa in his own apartment, one cop who said she was tired, one lawyer who says she has the right to act deadly, everybody knows the rules!
This defense lawyer is a POS
Right... right. And if I, as a concealed carrier, get wasted and ventilate someone, I too was acting in self defense (at least according to my thoughts at the time)... Sure.
The victim’s brother forgave and hugged her in court - more than I could have done in the same situation.
She had the right to act in deadly force in self-defense after she VIOLENTLY BROKE into another Persons Home while Armed??
Now can we KILL THE LAWYERS????
Well, yeah, but what is a defense lawyer supposed to do but defend?
I hope they repeal the ten years...and give her 20-to-life.
She deserves it!
Is anyone at freerepublic on the jury or have they been to the court or done any research on the evidence? . Just asking before swallow a headline hook line and sinker. Or believe some of the remarks are genuine . Or just fools spouting off like Chipmunks in a nut heap.
in these times, she probably should be happy what she got...hopefully she can get out early....it was a terrible mistake but a man DIED because of it....no easy matter to just forget...
She will get off. By January at the latest,she will be back on the Police Force and will have murdered at least two more people using the same m.o. The only question remaining to be answered is,”Who will she next have to defend herself from? With a little luck, perhaps she can top the Red Baron’s score. Perhaps the City will furnish her with kill decals to put on the side of her patrol car.What will the next victim she has to defend herself from and murder be eating in his/her residence be eating? Pecan pie, bacon,eggs,grits, ham , eggs,hash browns?
In general (don’t know about Texas), laws require that the claim of self-defense be “reasonable”. The policewoman’s life was not in danger by any objective standard. By arguing that her subjective (and demonstrably incorrect) judgement of the situation justified her use of deadly force, her lawyer admits that her actions were not “reasonable”. If such arguments held, every murderer could claim that he/she thought the victim was a velociraptor about to eat them; maybe it wasn’t so, but they had a right to defend themselves. No way will the Appeals Court accept this.
Her errors and subjective mental state were already considered — otherwise the sentence would have been much more harsh.
This incident and the subsequent trial were well-reported at the time and were the subject of numerous FR threads so I think at least some of these comments are from well-informed Freepers.
In Texas, if the cops break into your house even with a no-knock warrant and the resident shoots and kills the cops, there is a strong likelihood the prosecutor will not get an indictment from a grand jury.
This has been the result often enough that law enforcement agencies have pretty much stopped executing or even applying for no-knock warrants.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.