Amber Guyger’s defense team is asking the court of appeals to overturn her conviction imposed last year, citing insufficient evidence to prove she committed murder and instead wants her found guilty of criminally negligent homicide.
The former Dallas police officer is serving a 10-year sentence for shooting and killing Botham Jean inside his apartment in September 2018. Guyger also lived in the same apartment complex, one floor directly below Jean, and said she mistook him for an intruder when she entered his apartment instead of her own.
During a frantic call to 911 following the shooting, Guyger told the operator over and over that she thought she was in her apartment. Her defense attorneys based this mistake as a reason to find her not guilty of murder last fall.