From Dallas, Texas-The Texas Court of Appeals upheld the murder of a former Dallas police officer who was sentenced to imprisonment for fatally shooting a neighbor at home on Thursday.
A committee of three state judges has determined that there is sufficient evidence for a Dallas County jury to convict Amber Guiger for murder in the 2018 Bosamjan shooting.
The video above is from a 2019 trial in which Amber Guiger was hugged after the Bosam Shem Jean brothers made a speech in court.
The Dallas 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruling means that Geiger, 33, will continue to serve her on Monday. 10 years imprisonment And greatly shatters her hope of having 2019 conviction I turned it over. She will be eligible for parole in 2024 under the current ruling.
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The ruling occurs in a case that has attracted public attention due to a strange situation and one of a series of black men’s shootings by white police officers.
The Court of Appeal judge did not challenge the basic facts of the case. Geiger went home from a long shift and mistaken Jean’s apartment for his own. It was on the floor beneath him. Finding the door half-open, she went in and shot him. Later, he testified that he thought he was a thief.
Verdict Amber Guiger: Former Dallas police officer convicted of murder for shooting a neighbor in an apartment
Jean, 26 year old accountant, Eating a bowl of ice cream before Geiger shot him. She was later fired by the Dallas Police Department.
Geigers bring the action So did the shooting, as she stuck to the claim that it was reasonable to mistake Jean’s apartment for hers. Her lawyer asked the Court of Appeals to convict her murder or replace her with a criminal manslaughter conviction.
Dallas County prosecutors acknowledged that the mistake was unreasonable and Geiger intended to kill Jean, arguing that “murder is a consequential crime.”
Court Supreme Judge Robert D. Burns III, and Judges Lana Myers and Robbie Partida Kipness agree with the prosecutor and agree with Geiger’s belief that deadly power is needed. There wasn’t.
In the opinion on page 23, the judge also pointed out Geiger’s own testimony that she tried to kill, disagreeing that the evidence upheld the conviction of manslaughter rather than murder.
“She made a mistake about Jean’s position as a resident of her apartment or as a robber, but her mental state does not turn into a negligence because she knows or intentionally,” the judge wrote. rice field. “We refuse to rely on Geiger’s misconceptions about situations that lead to her false beliefs as the basis for reforming the jury’s verdict in the light of direct evidence of her intention to kill. To do.”
Attorneys can still ask the Texas Criminal Appeals Court, the state’s premier criminal case forum, to consider the Court of Appeals’ decision. The message to Geiger’s lawyer was not returned immediately.
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