An appeals court on Thursday denied an appeal by a former police officer who was convicted in 2019 of murder for shooting dead a man in his own apartment. Former Dallas officer Amber Guyger, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for killing Botham Jean, attempted to convince judges to acquit the murder conviction, replace it with a lesser charge, and order a new sentencing hearing. The appeal hinged on the argument that Guyger reasonably believed she was in her own apartment, which was in the same building as Jean’s, when she fired upon him. “Her mistaken belief negated the culpability for Murder because although she intentionally and knowingly caused Jean’s death, she had the right to act in deadly force in self-defense since her belief that deadly force was immediately necessary was reasonable under the circumstances,” Michael Mowla, Guyger’s attorney, wrote in a brief lodged in the Fifth Court …
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