Texas’ highest criminal court upholds conviction of former Dallas cop Amber Guyger
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas’ greatest felony court has declined to reconsider previous Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger’s murder conviction, proficiently upholding the sentence and exhausting the appeals process.
This marks the most current setback in a string of appeals Guyger’s legal professionals have submitted because she was sentenced to 10 many years in prison in 2019 for the murder of Botham Jean.
Guyger fatally shot Jean in his Dallas condominium in September 2018 immediately after she walked into the unit, mistakenly believing it was her individual. She claimed she assumed Jean was an intruder.
Guyger’s petition for discretionary assessment questioned the court to reconsider her conviction on the grounds that it “the proof was lawfully insufficient to help the jury’s rejection of her self-defense assert.”
Her legal professionals alleged that the prosecution did not effectively demonstrate that Guyger did not consider she was moving into her very own condominium or that she reasonably thought Jean to be an intruder.
With the appeals system exhausted, Guyger will continue on serving her 10 12 months sentence in Mountain Watch Point out Jail in Gatesville.
She will be eligible for parole in 2024.
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