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(Images via NNPA)<\/p>\nBy Maya Boddie
RTM Newsroom<\/p>\n
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger has been granted parole seven years after she was convicted of murdering her neighbor, Botham Jean, inside his Dallas apartment.<\/p>\n
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles approved Guyger\u2019s release Thursday (October 1), seven years to the day after Guyger was convicted of Jean\u2019s murder, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n
In 2019, a jury convicted Guyger of murder and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison for Jean\u2019s 2018 death. Her conviction and 10-year sentence were upheld on appeal in 2022.<\/p>\n
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Geyger\u2019s first parole request was denied in 2024, NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reported.<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department fired her after the shooting. During her trial, Guyger testified that she mistakenly entered Jean\u2019s apartment after returning home from work, believing it was her own apartment one floor below.<\/p>\n
She said she saw Jean inside and fired her weapon because she believed he was an intruder, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n
Jean was a 26-year-old Black man from St. Lucia who worked as an accountant. He was inside his home eating ice cream when Guyger entered and shot him, NBC DFW reported.<\/p>\n
The parole board cited Guyger\u2019s prison record in approving her release. According to NBC DFW, officials said she did not have a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests or convictions, maintained a satisfactory adjustment while incarcerated, and completed programs intended to help her obtain and maintain employment.<\/p>\n
Jean\u2019s family opposed the parole decision and had asked that Guyger serve her full 10-year sentence, according to NBC DFW.<\/p>\n
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who represents the family, told NBC DFW that the decision was deeply disappointing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served,\u201d Merritt said.<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department told NBC DFW that the parole decision was outside its authority and that the department had no role in determining whether Guyger would be released. The department said its thoughts remained with Jean\u2019s family and others affected by his death.<\/p>\n
Guyger\u2019s conviction and 10-year sentence were upheld on appeal in 2022.<\/p>\n
A civil jury ordered Guyger to pay Jean\u2019s family $98.6 million in damages in 2024, according to NBC DFW.<\/p>\n
Guyger\u2019s release date has not been announced. NBC News reported that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will determine when she is released.<\/p>\n
Originally published by the Michigan Chronicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Maya BoddieRTM Newsroom Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger has been granted parole seven years after she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-466498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}