Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer who was convicted of murder, CBS News reports that a jury convicted Guyger of murdering 26-year-old Botham Jean in his apartment six years ago. In Wednesday, she was ordered to pay the Jean family $98.6 million in a civil lawsuit. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Guyger claimed she mistakenly …
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 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, …
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 …
Despite the blatant gag order violation, the judge denied the defense’s bid for a mistrial
Prosecutors said an ex-Texas police officer wasn’t tired when she shot her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment last year—and the sexually-explicit text messages she sent to her partner prove it. ABC News reported that the texts were presented at the conclusion of Amber Guyger’s former partner’s testimony on Monday. Prosecutors said Guyger, 31, and …
The murder trial is underway 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 …
Amber Guyger testified that Botham Jean was standing up when she opened fire—a claim experts have contradicted in previous testimony
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 …
