A Texas jury awarded nearly $100 million to the family of a man gunned down in his own apartment by a Dallas police officer who thought she was at her own apartment on a different floor. The jury awarded $60 million in punitive damages and $38.6 million in compensatory damages, ruling that Amber Guyger acted …
The Dallas cop who murdered an innocent man in his own apartment is 2018 is now eligible for parole. Amber Guyger was still in uniform when she came home to Botham Jean’s 4th floor apartment instead of her own 3rd floor home and shot the 26-year-old dead on his couch as he ate ice cream, …
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a man in his own apartment when she mistakenly thought it was her unit, lost her first round of appeals this week. Botham Jean was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream on September 6, 2018, when Guyger, still in uniform, entered his apartment. She …
On Thursday, a Texas appeals court upheld the murder conviction of a former police officer who is serving a 10-year sentence for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment in 2018. Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger, 32, argued that she was not culpable of murder because she mistakenly believed she was in her own …
Lawyers for a former Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting a man in his own apartment appeared in court Tuesday to appeal her murder conviction. Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean, 26, in his own apartment …
A Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing her neighbor in his own apartment filed an appeal Tuesday to have her 2019 murder conviction overturned. Lawyers representing Amber Guyger requested the former Dallas police officer be convicted of negligent homicide instead of murder. The defense team also asked for …
A lawyer representing a former Texas police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison on October 2 for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment filed a notice of appeal on her behalf earlier this month. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Michael Mowla filed the notice for Amber Guyger, 31, …
A prosecution witness in the trial of ex-cop Amber Guyger for the killing of Botham Jean was shot dead in Dallas Friday evening, CBS DFW reported. Joshua Brown, 28, lived across the hall from Jean and testified about the night Guyger entered Jean’s apartment instead of hers and shot him dead. Brown testified that he …
Amber Guyger, the ex-Texas police officer found guilty of murdering her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the September 2018 slaying. Guyger, 31, was sentenced a day after she was convicted for last year’s fatal shooting. At sentencing, the jury rejected the defense’s request to find that …
Update: Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney who’s representing Botham Jean’s family, issued the following statement in light of Tuesday’s verdict: “Nothing will bring Botham back, but today his family has found some measure of justice. What happened on September 6, 2018, is clear to everyone: This officer saw a black man and shot, without …
The murder trial continues for an off-duty Texas police officer who fatally shot her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment last year. Indicted late last year, ex-Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, 31, claimed she fatally shot Botham Jean, 26, in his apartment after mistaking his unit for hers. She reportedly told police that she had …
