Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to prison for fatally shooting her neighbor Botham Jean in his home in 2018.
overturned. She will become eligible for parole in 2024, under her current sentence.
The appeals court justices did not dispute the basic facts of the case. Guyger, returning home from a long shift, mistook Jean’s apartment for her own, which was on the floor directly below his. Finding the door ajar, she entered and shot him, later testifying that she thought he was a burglar.had been eating a bowl of ice cream before Guyger shot him. She was later fired from the Dallas Police Department.
The court’s chief justice, Robert D. Burns III, and Justices Lana Myers and Robbie Partida-Kipness concurred with prosecutors, disagreeing that Guyger’s belief that deadly force was needed was reasonable.
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