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A year from now there will be a headline that reads that she was acquitted.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/09/us/amber-guyger-arrest-botham-shem-jean/index.html
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 9, 2018, 11:15 PM - Edit history (9)
I was wondering if she would be able to use the defense of fearing for her life. She was in someone else's home, but could she claim she only killed him because she feared he would kill her?
John Fante
(3,479 posts)Seems like protocol from a fantasy film now.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)JI7
(89,262 posts)with it.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Cha
(297,532 posts)Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was arrested Sunday for investigation of manslaughter after allegedly entering the wrong apartment and fatally shooting the resident there, Botham Shem Jean, 26.
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Guyger, of Dallas, was arrested in Kaufman County and booked into the Kaufman County Jail, the Texas Rangers said in a statement.
The shooting just before 10 p.m. local time (11 p.m. ET) at the South Side Flats, an upscale apartment building south of Dallas downtown, occurred when Guyger was off-duty, police said
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dallas-officer-who-entered-wrong-apartment-killed-man-arrested-manslaughter-n907976
dansolo
(5,376 posts)Everone seems to be just assuming that she was drunk, but all I have heard was that she was off-duty, and presumably in uniform. I just don't buy it. When was her shift over? I think she was sober, and intentionally went to his apartment, but it is unclear why. My gut feeling was that she pulled out her gun to intimidate him for some reason and it went off.