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Nicole Duncan-Smith
Sun, November 21, 2021, 12:00 PM
A second appeal made on behalf of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer that was convicted of killing Botham Jean in his home, has been denied yet again by the Texas 5th Court of Appeals. The first appeal of her conviction was made and rejected this past August.
According to Fox 4 News, Guyger’s attorneys sought to undo a 10-year prison sentence for the 2018 fatal shooting of the 26-year-old accountant. Jean was innocently sitting in his fourth-floor apartment, eating a bowl of ice cream, when the then-officer came into his home, and shot him dead.
Testimony revealed that she lived directly below his, and she thought she was entering into her own domicile, believing a stranger had broken in, when she shot him.
Guyger and her team contend that her use of deadly force was reasonable, using that strategy to appeal for a rehearing. The Court of Appeals denied their petition.
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Article URL : https://www.yahoo.com/news/privilege-runs-amber-guyger-appeal-170000625.html