Attorney Ben Crump on conviction in Dallas wrong-apartment killing: 'This verdict is for Trayvon Martin. It's for Michael Brown. It's for Sandra Bland. It's for Tamir Rice. It's for Eric Garner...for so many unarmed black and brown human beings.'
A Texas jury rejected former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger's self-defense claims and convicted her on Tuesday of murder in the fatal 2018 shooting of an innocent man eating ice cream in his own home after mistaking his apartment for her own.
The 31-year-old Guyger, who was fired from the Dallas Police Department days after the shooting, faces a prison sentence of five to 99 years. The Dallas County jury began deliberations Monday afternoon after prosecutors told them in their closing argument that Guyger made a series of"unreasonable decisions" that cost an innocent man his life. Defense attorneys countered that she made"reasonable" mistakes that led her to resort to lethal force because she believed her life was in jeopardy.
In his closing argument on Monday, Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Jason Fine stood before jurors and asked them to reject Guyer's"crazy" contention that she shot the 26-year-old Jean in self-defense because she believed she was in her own apartment and that the victim, who was sitting on his couch eating ice cream, was going to kill her.
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