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Dallas Officer Amber Guyger's trial for the murder of Botham Shem Jean begins (FOUND GUILTY)

Shorty should not have did that interview or start the go fund me...

I understand her reasoning for both.... But they gonna fuck around and try to have the best witness thrown out
 
Duwop said:
Shorty should not have did that interview or start the go fund me...

I understand her reasoning for both.... But they gonna fuck around and try to have the best witness thrown out
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What do they need witnesses for? This case is cut and dry. No way to explain tbis situation, but can't trust the jury even though she is guilty obviously. Only need a witness to prove she went their intending to shoot him.
 
StringerBell said:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/cou...ccident-say-attorneys-skilled-remaking-client



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Even with her new look she still looks like a evil ferret in the face...
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left pic looks like shes seen a steroid cycle or two in her life...THATS dainty?
 
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In 911 call, Amber Guyger worried more 'about losing her job than my son,' Botham Jean's mother says


The frantic 911 call that Amber Guyger made after she shot Botham Jean in his Dallas apartment did nothing to shake his family's belief that the Dallas police officer murdered him.

In fact, Jean's mother told The Dallas Morning News on Tuesday that hearing Guyger’s pleas for help as Jean moans and takes his final breaths made her more certain than ever.

“The call made me strengthen my view that Amber Guyger is a cold-blooded killer because she was more concerned about losing her job than my son, the value of my son,” Allison Jean said. “She does not sound like she was trying to help him at all.”

Guyger, 30, was off duty but still in uniform Sept. 6 when she shot and killed Jean in his apartment in the Cedars, not far from Dallas police headquarters. Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, was watching football on his couch when Guyger entered.

In the 911 recording obtained by WFAA-TV (Channel 8) Guyger says over and over that she thought the apartment was hers. She told police the same thing.

A law enforcement official told The News in the days after the shooting that Guyger called 911 in tears. The official said Guyger repeatedly said, "I thought it was my apartment" and apologized to Jean.

"I'm an off-duty officer. I thought I was in my apartment, and I shot a guy thinking he was — thinking it was my apartment," Guyger tells the 911 operator.

Guyger lived directly below Jean at the South Side Flats apartments.

"I'm gonna lose my job," she says after the operator tells her that help is on the way. She repeatedly talks about losing her job during the phone call. “I’m done. I didn’t mean to. I didn’t mean to.”

Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall fired Guyger on Sept. 24. That was the same day Jean was buried in a cemetery by the sea in St. Lucia, the Caribbean island where he grew up and hoped to return to run for prime minister.

‘Helpful for her’
Dallas attorney George Milner III said the 911 call is a win for Guyger. He's frequently defended police officers accused of breaking the law but is not involved in the Guyger case.

“Bottom line,” Milner said, “it’s helpful for her.”

Milner said the call supports her statement to law enforcement that she thought she was in her own apartment. A defense to the murder charge can be that Guyger made a “mistake of fact” when she killed Jean.

But he said that if he represented Guyger, he'd wish she hadn’t told the 911 operator so much.

“It’s probably unhelpful that she was talking about losing her job at that point,” he said. “She should have just said, ‘I’m an off-duty officer. I’ve been involved in a shooting,’ given the address and hung up.”

Milner said it’s difficult to believe Guyger came up with a story to tell the police in such a short time. Saying so much, he said, makes her story about thinking it was her apartment more believable.

“None of that changes the fact that Botham Jean is dead and he shouldn’t be,” Milner said.

Guyger’s attorneys and the Dallas County district attorney’s office both declined to comment about the tape. State District Judge Tammy Kemp issued a gag orderpreventing prosecutors and defense attorneys from speaking about the case.

Before the gag order, one of Guyger’s attorneys, Robert Rogers, said Guyger is “completely devastated by what happened” and described the shooting as “a tragic mistake.”

Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata also declined to comment Tuesday, although he's spoken on Guyger’s behalf in the past. Shortly after the shooting, Mata called Guyger "a young dedicated officer who has done an amazing job in her short time with the Dallas Police Department."

Dallas police issued a statement Tuesday saying the department had opened an internal affairs investigation into the release of the 911 recording. The department said it had not authorized its release since the Texas attorney general's office ruled authorities could withhold it in light of the pending criminal investigation.

‘It’s still murder’
Lee Merritt, an attorney for the Jean family, said the public already knew the contents of the 911 call because of prior reporting by The News. The recording, he said, doesn't clear Guyger of murder allegations or change perceptions of the case.

"It's still murder," he said. "No one ever claimed she didn't end up at the wrong apartment accidentally. No one ever seriously said she had sinister intent in going to the apartment."

Merritt said Guyger did not seem to be trying to save Jean's life in the recording.

"She didn't say she was trying to stop the bleeding or that she was putting pressure on it," he said.

The family filed a lawsuit against Guyger and the city and say they hope to see better training for Dallas police officers.

Dallas attorneys not affiliated with the case have said murder is the appropriate chargeagainst Guyger because she intended to shoot Jean. In Texas, manslaughter is a reckless act — like shooting into a crowd and killing someone.

Merritt said the 911 call lacks key information about why Guyger shot Jean. She didn't say Jean charged at her or that she feared for her life. Merritt said that's likely what Guyger and her attorneys will say at trial in an attempt to justify her actions.

Allison Jean told The News that the call refutes Guyger’s later claim to police that she thought Jean was a burglar who gave her a reason to fire her service weapon.

“She never said she was afraid or that he charged her,” Allison Jean said. “She never said she thought he was a burglar.”

Allison Jean said she heard the emergency call Wednesday morning on Good Morning America. She is in Washington, D.C., for work-related meetings for her job as the CEO of St. Lucia’s National Utilities Regulatory Commission.

Hearing the 911 call, she said, has taken her back emotionally to where she was last year immediately after the shooting.

“It’s terrible,” she said. “It’s really heart-wrenching.”

Her husband, Bertram Jean, listened to the call on his phone at work in St. Lucia. He became so upset, she said, that someone had to take away his phone.

Allison Jean said both she and her husband kept working Tuesday even as they struggled to cope with what they heard. “For us, work is a good distraction,” she said.

Had the recording not been made public, the call would have likely been played publicly for the first time at Guyger’s trial. Prosecutors or defense attorneys will likely now play it again for the jury.

Families of victims sometimes leave the courtroom at those moments to avoid becoming too emotional in court. Allison Jean said she will listen again in court because she needs to witness the entire trial to represent her son’s memory in court.

“I don’t know how I would react. But I am ready to stand for Botham,” she said. “If it means having to stomach very difficult evidence, I will. As painful as it is, I will listen.
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The shooting of Botham Jean by my niece, Amber Guyger, was not a lynching

For 10 months people have demonized and vilified my niece Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who was indicted for the murder of Botham...
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The shooting of Botham Jean by my niece, Amber Guyger, was not a lynching

For 10 months people have demonized and vilified my niece Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer who was indicted in the murder of Botham Jean. Recently, Njoki McElroy, director of the Oral Fixation storytelling series, went a step further by claiming Jean's death was "a form of lynching," according to a Dallas Morning News article.

This inflammatory comparison makes me shudder. I wonder how McElroy can be so certain that the tragic death of Jean was racially motivated.

What happened the night of Sept. 6, 2018, was different from other incidents that drew national attention when white police officers killed Michael Brown, Walter Lamar Scott, Stephon Clark and other black men.

In other cases, men were killed by police officers who were on duty. Guyger had finished a long shift and returned home when, according to the arrest warrant affidavit, she said she mistook Jean's apartment for her own. She said she opened the ajar door of the unit and saw "a large silhouette" in the nearly dark apartment and believed it was a burglar.

Transcripts from a 911 dispatcher call reveal Guyger's initial shock when she summoned help after the shooting. She repeated more than a dozen times, "I thought it was my apartment" and also uttered, "I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry."

Would a racist police officer have this type of initial reaction, or was this response from someone who realized this was a horrific accident?

What happened that night was an unimaginable tragedy, and I don't want to minimize the loss of Jean. I grieve for his family, friends and everyone involved.

My niece and my family are devastated by what happened. I wake up every morning praying for everyone involved in this nightmarish situation.

I regret that protesters and others quickly linked the death of Jean to other sensational shootings of innocent black men under questionable circumstances by white police officers. To draw this conclusion, people assume they know what was going through Guyger's mind that night. But how can people be so sure she would have acted differently if she had mistakenly entered the apartment of someone who was white, Hispanic or Asian?

It's unfortunate that comments like the one from McElroy serve to conclusively link the death of Jean to racist intent. The only thing this incident has in common with the heinous act of lynching is that a black man died. Yet ironically, McElroy made this incendiary comment when describing this portion of the presentation at libraries this month titled "Freedman's Town to Botham Jean: Stories for Racial Healing."

How is it racially healing to proclaim that Jean's death was an act of hate simply because the officer was white? When we assume the worst about people who are different, wounds won't heal.

Having grown up during the civil rights era of Martin Luther King, I wish more progress had been made. Sadly, that's not the case, and cities such as Dallas have deep racial divisions.

I'm bracing myself for my niece's trial in September and expect more backlash from people who have already decided Guyger is guilty of murder. I just wish people would wait until the facts are presented in court before rendering their own verdicts.

Nancy Bishop is a counselor in Austin. From 1978 to 1983, she was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News. She wrote this column for The News.
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New filings in Amber Guyger murder trial reveal legal strategy

New filings in the Amber Guyger murder trial show some of what the state is trying to do as it prepares to take the former Dallas police officer to trial for the murder of Botham Jean.
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New filings in Amber Guyger murder trial reveal legal strategy
New filings in the Amber Guyger murder trial show some of what the state is trying to do as it prepares to take the former Dallas police officer to trial for the murder of Botham Jean.

Guyger shot and killed the Saint Lucia native in his own apartment in September 2018 after mistakenly thinking he was an intruder in her apartment.

A gag order in the case prevents the attorneys involved from talking. But the various motions being filed show the legal moves as they ready to argue in court

When Amber Guyger goes to trial for the murder of Botham Jean, what will play out in the courtroom is being revealed in public filings. Last week, prosecutors filed what’s called a ‘motion in limine.’

“That is a motion asking the opposing side to not mention or allude to some fact or evidence until the judge has determined whether that fact or evidence is admissible,” explained George Milner, an attorney who is not involved in the case.

There should be a lengthy witness list in the trial. Prosecutors want all written or recorded statements of potential witnesses.

“They want the witness statements prior to their cross examination,” Milner said.

Judge Tammy Kemp is being asked in the motion not to allow attorneys for Amber Guyger to mention the existence of any polygraph taken, attempted or agreed to be taken and results or conclusions or whether any plea bargain has been or could be offered by the state.

Daryl K. Washington is the Jean family civil attorney.

“The motion in limine is basically trying to prevent certain type of evidence that’s generally prejudicial being heard by the jury before there’s a ruling from the court,” Washington said.

The state is asking the judge not to allow Guyger’s defense attorneys, Robert Rogers and Toby Shook, to make mention of any prior criminal conduct or convictions of witnesses.

Attorney Russell Wilson headed up the unit in the DA's office that investigated police shootings.

“To the extent that a witness’ credibility is in question, you want to make sure that it’s attacked only within the rules of evidence,” Wilson said. “And as the defendant though, you want to use every information that you have to attack a witness.”

The motion also seeks to prevent the defense from attacking Botham Jean’s character or reputation including any specific instances of Jean's past sexual behavior.

“You wouldn't normally see that in a murder type case, but I think that ultimately this was just a matter of the prosecution trying to cover every potential base,” Wilson said. “The more information you know, the more time you have to prepare or the better you can argue that certain information would or would not be admissible. And so it’s absolutely a strategic game from the start.”

In this strategic legal matchup, the next moves are in the next motions filed by the defense. A change of venue motion is still expected to come and rulings handed down by Judge Tammy Kemp in the decisions.
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Jurors in Amber Guyger’s murder trial must put emotions aside to deliver truth and justice

Jurors in Amber Guyger’s murder trial must put emotions aside to deliver truth and justice
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Jurors in Amber Guyger’s murder trial must put emotions aside to deliver truth and justice

An impartial assessment of the evidence is the only path to justice in this case..


When something senseless happens in a community, there’s a natural tendency to search for the underlying reasons for it.

And it’s understandable to be profoundly heartbroken, for emotions to bubble to the surface as we seek answers to soothe the unfathomable hurt we feel.

Such is the case of the killing of Botham Jean, an unarmed man shot and killed in his own apartment by a now-fired Dallas police officer. On the first anniversary of his death on Friday, jury selection in the murder trial for that officer, Amber Guyger, begins. And with it comes a recognition that a full year has done nothing to dull our feelings of despair — for this young man's family and for this city.

That this was an innocent black man killed by a white officer we know creates a racially charged environment rooted in decades of history in Dallas — and this country.

But because emotions are still so high, it’s important that a sense of calm prevails. Nothing could be more important than for Guyger to receive a fair trial. Jean’s family — and this entire community — need to have all the facts thoroughly examined to get to the bottom of this.

An impartial assessment of the evidence is the only path to justice in this case. The rule of law and the tenets of a civilized society dictate that Guyger have her day in court to explain her actions and for a jury to determine her accountability.

What we know is that Guyger, 31, was off duty and returning from a long shift in uniform, when she said she mistook Jean’s apartment at the South Side Flats near downtown Dallas for her own and thinking he was an intruder, shot him in the chest. She lived in the apartment directly below his.

We’ve said before that if this was a mistake, there’s room for sympathy for Guyger. But dire actions deserve consideration of tough consequences.

Most important is that this case be judged on its own merits — that the jury render its judgment based on the facts and evidence in this case — and this case alone.

Experts expect jurors to be questioned heavily on their views of other police-involved shootings of black citizens in this area and around the country. They are right to try to keep potential jurors with strong feelings about such cases off this jury.

We don’t know if race was a factor in this shooting. And no doubt, there’s still much to examine around those issues. But this case must be decided solely on what happened in that apartment on Sept. 6, 2018.

It’s fair to debate whether Guyger should have been charged with murder or manslaughter. Prosecutors charged her with murder, pointing out that she didn’t accidentally discharge her weapon. She intended to shoot Jean. Manslaughter calls for a determination of recklessness.

We're on record with worries that a murder charge — with its stiffer sentence — creates a greater risk of a determination that Guyger bears no responsibility for Jean's death. We can't lose sight that the man was killed minding his own business in his own home.

But that’s for the jury to decide. We worry that the judge in this case is still weighing defense attorneys’ request to move this case out of Dallas. They believe the publicity surrounding the case is “prejudicial and inflammatory” and would make a fair trial impossible.

We urge state District Judge Tammy Kemp to keep this trial in Dallas because we have faith that Dallas jurors can put their personal feelings aside and render a just decision based on what they hear in the courtroom. It’s important for transparency’s sake that this case is decided here.

We’re all in for a tough few weeks as this case works its way through the courts. Of course, it pales in comparison to the pain Jean’s family must deal with every day with the loss of this young soul.

But we are counting on deliberate assessment and cool heads to prevail — during this trial and the reaction to this verdict — to bring healing to this family and this entire community.
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Black folks always gotta be ones who got to put their “emotions” aside.. SMH...
 
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