Nope. It didn't.
She irreparably damaged her credibility by being contradicted by *every other witness* to her encounter with Jean. And her lie regarding CPR.
Given that her entire defense was based on the jury believing her story, that damaged credibility and the obvious and numerous opportunties to de-escalate left her lawyers with no choice but to throw a hail mary pass, and absurdly argue the Castle Doctrine.
Alas, shooting someone to death in their OWN apartment isn't how the Castle Doctrine works.
every other witness? none of those alleged witnesses saw what happened...and they were probably black like the one that got killed whilst doing a drug deal the other day...probably doped up when the event ocurred.
The witnesses HEARD what happened. And they contradict her account that she told him to show his hands.
Why would a jury believe a woman who was contradicted by every other witness, who had shot a man to death in his own home (demonstrating spectacularly poor judgment), and then lied about giving him CPR? She had obliterated her credibility.
Worse, there were plenty of opportunities to de-escalate. She chose instead to murder Botham Jean in his own apartment.
And the jury rightly convicted her of her crimes.
Nonsense....a good jury would not have given any credibility to a witness who claimed to not have heard something....especially if he is black trying to cover for another black.
Sensible people aren't motivated by the kind of racial hatred that drives your irrationality. Just because YOU determine credibility on the basis of race doesn't mean that sensible people do as well.
Sensible people would definitely take into account all the other witnesses. And definitely afford them more credibility than a woman who has such spectacularly poor judgment that she shot a man to death in his own apartment and then lied about trying to give him CPR.
And the jury was most definitely comprised of sensible people who rightly recognized that shooting a man to death in his own apartment is neither 'self defense', nor has a thing to do with the Castle Doctrine.
With the just verdict of 10 years being entirely appropriate for Amber Guyger's senseless murder of Botham Jean.