... Jean family attorneys, including Benjamin Crump, and local politicians rallied against the Dallas Police Department for failing to make a timely arrest in the case. "You or I would be arrested if we went to the wrong apartment and blow a hole in a person's chest, killing them," said Crump ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/botham-jean-shooting-dallas-police-officer-amber-guyger-says-victim-ignored-commands-2018-09-10/

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she'd been drinking.

Of course I could be wrong.. and she's like that stone cold sober.

... defense.

If she thought it was her place why ask the door to be opened ?!

Anything following that is going to be 100% stupid

Her story doesn't fit together.

Manslaughter is the right charge with the information known.

so fishy.. especially now that she's trying to wiggle out of it with seemingly lies.

This is very puzzling and it sounds like someone is lying.

Just sayin'

I wonder if Dallas keeps an audit trail of when anyone looks up a citizen in their databases.

Why did she yell at anyone to open the door if she thought she was standing outside her own apartment?

If she used her key to get in, as she said, why did she yell anyone inside to open the door?

Nothing she said makes sense.

Into overdrive to impeach the ear witnesses who heard her call to open door.

the door was ajar.

I would not take her word for anything.

Botham Jean.

I hope the door lock has a 'memory' and can tell when the door was locked at what times.

My husband and I were on vacation. After a night of dining and drinking we went to our room. We used the room key to unlock the door and walked in. Instantly we realized it was not our room. None of our stuff was in it. We got out and realized our room was one floor up. Luckily the room true occupiers were not in the ròom. Now it occurs to me that there could have been a different ending.

I cannot sympathize with the police officer firing her gun. I hope she gets true justice.

have been able to open someone else's room in the hotel!

I've been drunk back in the day and it feels like something I would have done with the wrong apt. But, I would have ended up embarrassed. Which is what should have happened instead of the tragic murder of Bo Jean

He gave me the key, but I went to the wrong door, and got inside. I was using the toilet when I saw shoes and suitcases that were not ours. Lucky for everyone that the room was empty. Never trust hotel room keys.

Her apartment is on the 1st floor,
and his on the 4th floor?

From https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/us/dallas-police-officer-amber-guyger-arrest/index.html :

She’s a murderer

As a seventy one year old white woman, I'm sick of this. This is so out of bounds.

All she needs to do is come up with an account (as she has) that doesn’t have her knowingly killing an unarmed man, and she’ll get the benefit of the doubt: “if I came home — even if it turned out to be the wrong place — and found a guy inside in the dark, I sure as hell would shoot first and ask questions later!” will be the mantra of every single white juror, diplomatically not mentioning that that would be especially true for a white woman facing a black man.

Jurors give the police a free pass in nearly any on-duty situation, especially arrest situations.

But an off-duty cop killing someone in a situation that was undeniably 100% a mistaken creation of the cop?

I think this is one of the few cases in which the cop actually goes to prison, albeit for a crime less than murder....

He had a distinctive red porch mat.
Unless she has that exact same mat, her story doesn’t hold water.

Was she claimed she had to go out and look at the room number on the outside to check to see if she was in her own apartment when she was calling the incident in. Seriously? Now, at first I was thinking the story was plausible, though I still supported a manslaughter charge. But now? I don't know what the hell was going on there, but her story is fishy as hell.

If she was drunk while in uniform when she shot a man in his own apartment...

then she should have gotten away and immediately called for back-up.

Not gone inside and killed the intruder.

Open and shut case. I've decided. They couldn't put me on that jury!

People heard her loudly yell "open the door!" so there is a major discrepancy there. She obviously chose the order of events which would give her the best case, and it's because she was allowed to be free for days to get her story together.

The way they're saying she parked on a different floor of the parking garage makes it sound like she got more reasonably confused about which floor she was on, and the fact that she claims the door was ajar (which I doubt it was) makes it even more suspicious.

Amber was knocking on the door and yelling "open the door!".. so.. conflicting reports abound.

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and on and on the genocidal rampage continues. 350 years and it goes on and on. I hope she ends up in prison for life.

Until she came up with this BS story. Now I don't know. It is obvious the Rangers are serving as defense investigators.

but given it's the Texas Rangers, well I would expect nothing less than obfuscation and out and out lies. They do watch each other's back in cases such as this with the victim being unarmed innocent and AA. 99.9% of the time.

there is more to this story. A personal vendetta? I am not sure what is missing, but there is an unknown angle to this.

I read that she was one floor below him. So maybe he was noisy walking around at night, or something. Not that that is any excuse to ever kill anyone! I had a guy live below me who went into a fit because I used a treadmill during the day while he was home.

if they can get a racist jury like with george zimmerman they will refuse to convict someone for killing a black person.

... probably request the case be moved to another court.

A life is needlessly lost due to reckless use of a firearm by a police officer. The days of letting the cop walk away have to be behind us.

...for its alleged facts. What the fuck.

So who will step up as an advocate for the dead man.

The way they're handling this it's like she's the poor overworked victim of her circumstances.

Wouldn't be shocked if she gets reinstated and is back on the street in a year.

wonderful family from the Caribbean Island of St Lucia.

Prosecutor suggests stronger charge against Dallas officer who killed neighbor

Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson also said any notion of preferential treatment for officer Amber Guyger was separate from her office.

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That was totally their call, that was totally their responsibility, that was totally their lead," Johnson said at a news conference about how investigators first handled the case. "I cannot dictate to the Texas Rangers the process, the investigation, what they do and what they don't do."

She added that she had a "spirited conversation" with the Texas Rangers for two hours on Sunday about the manslaughter charge.

More..
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prosecutor-suggests-stronger-charge-against-dallas-officer-who-killed-neighbor-n908156

You can't be charged twice for the same crime.

It does look like a cover up between Guyger and the Officials..

Botham Jean's door was unlocked, lights were off when Officer Amber Guyger mistook his apartment for hers, official says

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The Dallas police officer who killed 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own apartment got inside because the door wasn’t locked, a law enforcement official said Sunday.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/dallas-police/2018/09/09/botham-jeans-door-unlocked-amber-guyger-mistook-apartment-official-says

So.. the police are going with a different story than the witnesses. Killed because she "came off a 15 hour shift" and "he left his door unlocked and she didn't notice the RED DOORMAT."

Family disputes official account of the moments before Amber Guyger shot Botham Jean

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It reads like a defense not a charge.

The murder charge, but unless some other information comes out, the manslaughter charge seems the most appropriate. Overcharging will lead to aquital.

informed me of that.

It's such a heartbreaking random act of gun violence by cop.. they all are, of course.

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Either its that or something much, much darker.

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I'll bet there are security cameras everywhere.

either someone was staying in her apartment and she expected them to open the door or she wanted the burglar she thought was inside who had changed the locks to open the door. Jean opens the door. If it was unlocked and she looked inside and saw a silhouette (to see a silhouette there must be some light, either a window or a light on in a bedroom), the reaction was the same and that's why she shot him. SURPRISE BIG DARK MAN DANGER DANGER DANGER GUN DRUGS WEAPONS BIG DARK MAN BANG BANG.

This is my theory.

Apparently he was in his underwear, which I had assumed. Like that famous guy whose neighbor called the cops on him thinking he broke into his own house and he opened the door in his underwear to cops with guns drawn and they didn't put the guns down until one of the cops recognized him. What do I know, maybe most burglars strip down to their underwear when they are robbing. Don't want to get their clothes sweaty.

Unless there are things we don’t know.

Looking at the Texas law it appears that a conviction of murder requires prior intent, that she went there with intent to harm someone.

Manslaughter is the appropriate charge under Texas law. She was reckless in her conduct and as a result caused the death of another, but did not go there to intentionally cause harm.

If they try for murder there is a strong chance it will be too much and they won’t get a jury to convict, as it will require convincing them that her intent was to harm another. If they try for manslaughter than they have a near certain conviction.

... she got the whole night wrong?

thx in advance

It’s possible. But it’s also possible the DA will not want to take any deal because of how high profile this is.

I will say due to public pressure and how high profile it is she would not get as good a deal as if it were Joe Public who had the same thing happen. In that case a DA would take a plea as a win and move on. More eyes on what is done here.