I was just pointing out the other shooting.....candycorn keeps bringing it up but still can't explain the "intent," behind the officer "murdering," the guy in his apartment......she stated she got off on the wrong floor and thought it was her apartment when she encountered the guy......without any other underlying "intent," this should have been a manslaughter case at the worst.....but they convicted her of murder....
At most, they should have given her manslaughter, if that........but they gave her murder instead...likely because she was a police officer, and he was a black guy....
No motive for "murder," was ever presented by the prosecution..
But in tearful testimony last week, Guyger said she was "scared to death" when she opened what she thought was her own apartment door and saw the silhouette of a man she mistook for an intruder.
"I was scared whoever was inside my apartment was going to kill me," she told the jury. "No police officer would want to hurt an innocent person."
Guyger lived on the third floor of an apartment complex just south of downtown Dallas. Her lawyers said she was in uniform and had just finished a 13-hour workday on Sept. 6th, 2018, when she mistakenly opened Jean's door.
"What was going through Amber's mind was just, 'I'm going home,' " defense lawyer Robert Rogers said. " 'I'm exhausted, and I'm going home.' "
Guyger testified that she had put her key in the door and realized it was unlocked. Thinking someone had broken in, she drew her gun and entered the apartment.
Guyger said she ordered Jean, "Let me see your hands," and that he instead started to move toward her. Prosecutors countered that nobody in the apartment complex heard her instruct Jean to raise his hands.
Within seconds of opening the door, she fired two shots at Jean. One of the bullets struck him in the chest, killing him.
Guyger called 911 and told the operator over and over: "I thought it was my apartment."
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Under Texas law, convicting a defendant of murder requires proving someone intentionally killed another person, as opposed to manslaughter, in which prosecutors have to show someone was killed because of recklessness.
Amber Guyger, who is white, had testified that she entered Botham Jean's unit after a long day at work, thinking it was her own home and mistaking the 26-year-old black accountant for an intruder.
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There was no evidence of an intentional act on the part of the officer........no previous relationship with the guy, no reason she would have simply shot him to kill him...yet they still convicted her of murder....
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