EX-Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger To Appeal Murder Conviction Next Week
While Derek Chauvin adjusts to jail another former police officer who’s already in prison is seeking to get her murder conviction overturned according to CBS 11 Dallas. Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, a year and half into her 10 year sentence for the murder of Botham Jean in September 2018 will have her appeal heard by a panel of judges next week. Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 after a jury found her guilty of shooting and killing Botham Jean who lived in an apartment directly above hers in Dallas, Texas.
Guyger attorneys claimed she mistakenly got off on the wrong floor and walked into Jean’s apartment thinking he was breaking into her apartment.
Attorney Toby Shook isn’t involved in the appeal, however, represented the former officer during her criminal trial according to the news station.
Shook says the appeal will be based on an argument that because Guyger made a mistake of fact when she killed Jean, her conviction shouldn’t have been for murder but the lesser offense of criminally negligent homicide
“Statistics show that felonies are not often reversed for trials,” said Shook. “They are low. They do happen, but it just depends on the actual issues so it’s kind of hard to predict, but most cases are affirmed.”
The appeal will be heard by a three- judge panel which will listen to arguments and render a decision at a later date.
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