"The evidence was legally insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Guyger committed murder," her attorneys argued in a court document. They're claiming Guyger had"the right to act in self-defense since her belief that deadly force was necessary was reasonable under the circumstances" because of her"mistaken belief" that she had entered her apartment and found an"intruder" inside, court documents show.
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger leaves the courtroom during a break in morning proceedings in her murder trial, Sept. 24, 2019, in Dallas. Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger leaves the courtroom during a break in morning proceedings in her murder trial, Sept. 24, 2019, in Dallas., was an accountant at the international auditing firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was is in his apartment eating ice cream on Sept. 6, 2018, when Guyger, who had just capped off a 13 1/2-hour shift helping a SWAT team arrest three suspected robbers, entered his unlocked door and fatally shot him in the chest after mistaking him for a burglar.
In the 911 call made by Guyger after she shot Jean, which was obtained by ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA, Guyger repeatedly tells a dispatcher,"I thought it was my apartment," and says,"I'm going to lose my job."Guyger's attorney didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
I am surprised she has been in jail this long.
Let's hope the judge says NO.
Acquitted IS ABSOLUTELY SICK?
occupytheport She should be ashamed of herself and accept her punishment.
Our legal systems sucks! How could that request even be entertained ?
This after his brother gave her an emotional hug So she never accepted her responsibility in killing an innocent man. Just wow.
Will she be liable for the damages caused by the riots that will start?
Holy shit two years ago?! Feels like a lifetime
Um...no
Karen, tell me this isn’t true!
She shot an innocent man dead in his own home. She’s lucky she didn’t get 50 years. SMFH.
She's a murderer. Murderers deserve punishment. It's simple really.
Nobody wants to do their time for crimes committed. Why dont you ask Trump, I'm sure he'll be willing to help.
Why? She killed someone.
Karen exceptionalism.....
Ummm no
She deserves an appeal
NOPE !!! NO CAN DO MURDERER !!!
So just to get this right, she killed someone in their own home claimed she thought it was her apartment and is now asking them to get rid of the murder charges 2 years later? Lol see this is why most people hate cops
This shows she has no remorse...she needed longer sentence from the jump....
Nahh get the fuck out.. do your already lowered sentence that you fucking got. I hated this whole story... there’s no way you are that tired you go into the wrong damn house.. DO YOUR TIME
Get to be fcuked , guilty as sin
There will be rapture on Earth MESSIAH is coming. Only the Holy One will be chosen. HeavenlySundayService
While I have gone through the wrong door before, I would never shoot first without knowing the situation.
She killed an innocent man in his own home, she needs to pay her time, shameful!
elegantcoretta Hell no! Amber Guyger must serve every single day of her sentence! JusticeForBothamJean AmberGuyger is an example of WhitePrivilege
If this isnt white priviledge then grits isnt grocery, eggs aint poultry, and Mona Lisa was a MAN
Disgusting.
She deserves to be in jail for life. Period.
This white privilege to the max. She was judge and executioner of mr. Jean. Without him attacking her she decided he was wrong and murdered him, now she thinks she should be free. Castle doctrine should not apply to her.
This why BLM is important. You killed a man, who was in his own home. You killed a man 👨 and it wasn't an accident, you killed a man
She was worried about losing her job, not the life lost.
Going through the motions and appeals process. She will be staying right where she is.
White privilege🤮
HELL NO! They are only trying this because Botham Jeans neighbor is dead and cannot testify again.
Dead lasts forever...so should her punishment.
The way the you wrote the description of events is telling on Sept. 6, 2018, when Guyger, who had just capped off a 13 1/2-hour shift helping a SWAT team arrest three suspected robbers, entered his unlocked door and fatally shot him in the chest after mistaking him for a burglar
She need to stay in jail
This has to be NO. She’s a cold blooded killer
She is guilty of Murder and should spend the rest of her life in prison
So, you guys reported on this and not Epstein case? Really!!! I do not trust you ABC News and I hope that ABC news goes fully woke as heck and then 2.5 seconds after being woke, goes broke.
Even if there IS an intruder in your home, which is several leaps from what actually happened, there is no excuse for shooting an unarmed person.
Has she been tanning?
ShanChan_37
If this she deviI is let loose, she will break in every bkack persons house and muder them without conscience, consequences or repercussions. WhitePrivilege
Did anyone NOT expect this?! Again, more NON-news looking for Likes. How much do I need to $$ donate to get news outlets start actually reporting news - for new news not a story from over a year ago!
Now where was I.... The 54th amendment guarantees it!. My sister depends a measure back in Minnesota - in Independence the Affordable Care Act What I would do is what we did in our administration.. I would do even more of that.
Didn’t that dumbass black dude hug her at trial?
No.
Eff no 🤦🏽♂️🤢
Hell to the NO!
She has a whole lot of cotdamn nerve. You fucking KILLED a dude sitting in his own apartment. FOH
Booooooo!!!
Uh....no.
This!
'Do the crime, do the time' right?
She wants FOX to cover it so she can get a pardon
After she broke in to his apartment, “thinking it was her apartment” and shot him in his home. He was unarmed. Yeeeaaahhh....thats Murder.
I hope she does win an appeal and she gets a judge that will give her more than 10 years. She deserves life.
Guilty had intent from go to woe ! Life !
KTNV Acquitted for what: Insanity; Doing her job for 13 hours (weird defense); Jean was a burglar in his own home; For not locking HIS own door (Is that illegal btw); For being sober; For trying to be Casey Anthony did it, why not
She was in the wrong apt? She shot first without finding out what was happening? No way!!!!!
No appeal. She needs to do her time. For Gods sake, there's a guy doin life for just TRYING to steal some garden clippers. She shouldn't be tying up the courts. She murdered Botham Jean. Period.
🤣
Why? She did it. She admitted doing it. Why shouldn't she do the time?
She's lucky she only got 10 years, any regular person without money or a badge would get 30 years if they take a plea, 60 years if not.
Why? He's still dead and it's still murder
I think the fuck not!!!
Ummm.... no
Why wouldn't a police officer believe she was the victim after she walked into someone's home and shot him to death? After all, it was just a Black man and she's a delicate Flower of the South with the double privilege of also being a cop.
LAW AND ORDER!
Ridiculous. You did the crime.. you need to do the time. Am kind gentle soul was lost due to your inept gun toting ways.
Fuck that, do your time and come out a better person.
Reason for appeal is?
White privilege at its finest.
ACAB
Uuuhhhh, I think she should reconsider. She obviously haven’t been watching TV; noticing the country’s unrest after the death of George Floyd BY A COP!!!!!!!! Keep yo’ ass in prison!
Oh, hell no! She needs another 10 years added on to her sentence.
Police officers should be held to higher standard then the public. Also, shouldn’t have weapon on you while you are drunk. Ambers actions and only hers caused man to lose his life. Sentence for her crime was joke.
She won’t win. This is textbook
Note to everyone: They let her out we in the streets
Of course.
Nay!
No
Thanks for reminding me who she was Thought she was just another teacher who had sex with her students
Hell no
More bullshit from shyster lawyers. Mr. Jean is still just as dead and I guess Guyger bears no responsibility for that even though she killed Mr. Jean. Off the fucking rails.
That’s he right, just hope that due process leads to a denial. She needs to spend the rest of life in jail.
It was a BS conviction to begin with. It was blatantly obvious it was a mistake. Every floor looks exactly the same.
First, she was a police officer and a well-trained individual, so she goes to her apartment every day and now she is saying, that it was a mistake, because she thought it was her apartment, come on!!! These days at ass trump era anybody wants to twist the truth
I don't care what color she is, I do not believe she thought she was in her apartment, and if she did believe she was in her apartment, the man was sitting on the couch and was no threat to her. By law if your life is not threatened you can't use deadly force
Read the article.
Gov. Abbott might as well activate the National Guard now.
Giant balls on that one.
She had intent from go to woe !! Life !!
Jeffery Epstein this bitch. BALL GAME!!!
Isn't it too late for 'diminished capacity' argument?
She should get a longer sentence for this appeal.
She will be denied as she killed a man in his own apartment, as she said she thought she was in her apartment.
Her biggest concern was losing her job?! LOL. She should use the time wisely and do some soul searching.
She claims she is sorry for what she did. If she was sorry, she would do every second of her prison sentence and NOT put Botham Jeans family threw this again. AmberGuyger
Where is Big Bertha when you need her?
I think that they're trying to appeal to Trump. Surely they know that this was a state crime and not a Federal one. Although she did violated his federal civil rights. She got off light and still have the gall to want to face 0 consequences. I hope the family file a civil suit.
Wow only a police officer would get this deal WTF
Sooo is she now claiming that wasn’t her who killed that man in HIS home? I’m confused...
Her appeal will fail…she is not seen as genuinely remorseful
BULLCRAP
She flat out killed Botham. Even if acquitted, she'll drown herself numb to just be normal, not after what society will do to her if she ever gets out... it won't be a good life for sure
No.
No, her ass needs to stay in jail... In fact, add more time just because she has the balls to ask to get out.
Oops I guess she will be the new star of “orange is the new black”
My first instinct is to support cops, but I'm aware and mature enough to know they are human just like.anyone else and you'll have good ones and bad ones, just like any other job. I will NOT support a bad cop. You screw up, be a damn adult and own it and take the punishment.
Whatever negative karma come the way of this thing is deserved.
it was dark, he was black, i'm a cop, ok?
Nope.
Oh fuck no. The damn woman went into the WRONG APARTMENT and shot the man who lived there because she was 'tired or some weak ass crap excuse. She screwed up, she pays the damn price.
Of course
She will get a pardon - it’s what they do
Hell no!
It wasn’t on purpose. She’s not gonna do it again. There are enough people in prison. Prison should be for violent people who will violate others again.
She committed no crime. And she did get a thug off the streets.
Unbelievable. Serve your time and give the family some kind of peace instead of dragging them back into court.
Why ? Did history change. Did she un murder him. Naaa sorry - she’s not Trump - we have a rule of law and she was convicted. Go serve time like everyone else.
Of course they did.... but it should be denied
I’m surprised she was ever convicted in the first place! She is a blonde white girl police officer after all!
Nah, there’s a lot of more innocent inmates out there who don’t get that kind of leniency on their shit. Fuck that.
Acquitted of murder? Is the victim no longer dead.
... texas no remorse , she belongs in prison. wfaa cbsdfw nbcdfw
Of course, they'll try...doubt it will work.
Hey - maybe next we can bring him back to life too.
Look, if she's been a model inmate just release her. Technically she's safer inside than outside with all these anti-police riots going on.
Is he no longer murdered?
Wtf? She went in his house and shot him dead. Period.
God, I hope she's DENIED.
'Attorneys for former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger have filed an appeal, requesting she be acquitted of murder charges after fatally shooting Botham Jean nearly two years ago.'
They better not fucking overturn anything. She murdered him. Period.
No. She needs to serve her sentence.
Nope, she murdered that man
Bad timing, Amber.
...why should she be acquitted, he’s deceased...
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