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Title: Ex-Dallas cop who fatally shot neighbor distracted by sexting police partner, prosecutors say
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FOX News
URL Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-dalla ... police-partner-prosecutors-say
Published: Sep 24, 2019
Author: Frank Miles
Post Date: 2019-09-26 11:13:41 by Deckard
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Views: 7584
Comments: 54
On the first day of trial, prosecutors contended a former Dallas police officer accused of murdering a man whom she wrongly believed to be in her apartment was distracted by sending sexually explicit text messages. Attorneys for Amber Guyger, 31, argued that she fired in self-defense based on the mistaken belief that she was entering her own apartment and that Botham Jean was a burglar. Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, “was doing no harm to anyone, which was his way,” Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus said in an opening statement. Jean was in his living room eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream on Sept. 6, 2018, when Guyger entered the apartment, which was one floor directly above her apartment, Hermus said. Fox 4 reported that Guyger allegedly was distracted by texting Martin Rivera, her police partner. Prosecutors questioned Rivera extensively about a 16-minute phone conversation he had with Guyger as she headed to her apartment that night in September 2018. Asked what it was about, he said he believes it was mostly about police work but his memory of the call was hazy. Again, however, he denied that it involved plans to see Guyger later that evening. In his opening statement, defense attorney Robert Rogers dismissed the prosecution arguments. GAMER SENTENCED TO PRISON IN DEADLY 'SWATTING' CASE Guyger “was on autopilot,” he said of her entrance to Jean’s apartment. “She had tunnel vision.” Rogers also dismissed as “preposterous” the relevance of Guyger’s sexual relationship with her partner. Guyger was off duty but still in uniform when she shot Jean. She told investigators that after a 15-hour shift she parked on the fourth floor of the complex’s garage – rather than the third floor, where she lived – and found the apartment’s door ajar. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Three days after the shooting, Guyger was arrested for manslaughter. She was subsequently fired from the Dallas Police Department and charged by a grand jury. The jury will have to decide whether Guyger committed murder, a lesser offense such as manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, or no crime at all.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Criminally negligent homicide I can see. If she hadn't been tired, confused and distracted, this wouldn't have happened. Murder? No way.
This is all of us wearing our shocked faces. Really. I'm only surprised you don't want her to get a public service award for her bravery in shooting an unarmed man eating vanilla ice cream in his own apartment.
How do you justify a charge of murder?
By voting for a murder conviction if I am a seated juror in the case. Like having an asshole, everyone has an opinion. In this matter, the 12 jurors are the only thing that counts. And every other asshole just has an opinion.
Fine. Let the prosecutor charge murder and if the jury finds that the charge doesn't fit the crime they acquit. Fair enough?
Yeah, I think you didn't read the entire article. The last sentence: "The jury will have to decide whether Guyger committed murder, a lesser offense such as manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, or no crime at all." I would think an experienced jury foreman like yourself would have noticed that little detail. Besides: Texas jury, Texas rules. Whether anyone else likes it or not. If you don't like it, move there and get the laws changed. Isn't that the advice you often hand out here at LF?
I did. And I'm saying that if you're so set on a murder charge then that's all you get. Are you now saying that it might not be murder? Getting a little worried? Looking for an escape route? Want to add jaywalking to the list so you can convict on something?
#10. To: misterwhite (#9)
Again: Texas jury, Texas laws. No matter how much you freak out about it, post furiously on Twitter, try to rile up a Fakebook lynch mob, etc. Perhaps a photo will clarify it. That's Texas, giving you their famous "I don't give two fucks what you think of our laws and courts" look.
Looks like you got your wish. A murder conviction.
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#4. To: misterwhite (#1)
Murder? No way.
#5. To: Tooconservative (#4)
#6. To: misterwhite (#5)
How do you justify a charge of murder?
#7. To: Tooconservative (#6)
By voting for a murder conviction if I am a seated juror in the case.
#8. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#7)
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Fine. Let the prosecutor charge murder and if the jury finds that the charge doesn't fit the crime they acquit.
#9. To: Tooconservative (#8)
I would think an experienced jury foreman like yourself would have noticed that little detail.
Replies to Comment # 9. Are you now saying that it might not be murder? Getting a little worried? Looking for an escape route? Want to add jaywalking to the list so you can convict on something?
#11. To: misterwhite (#9)
I did. And I'm saying that if you're so set on a murder charge then that's all you get.
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