Jurors concluded a civil wrongful death case Wednesday by awarding Botham Jean’s family nearly $100 million in damages, finding former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger guilty of using excessive ...
Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer is ordered to pay $98.6 million to the family of Botham Jean, a man she shot in his apartment. The three-day trial ended on Wednesday with the federal jury ...
In closing arguments, attorneys for Botham Jean’s family asked the jury to send a message that Dallas County residents “are going to be safe in our homes.” Guyger waived her right to participate in ...
It was also about accountability, they said. “We want to make sure when Amber Guyger gets out of prison that ... she’s not going to have a normal life. She’s not going to be able to ...
Amber Guyger is serving a 10-year sentence for the murder of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old Black man who lived in the same building. At the murder trial, Guyger testified that she returned from an ...
He remembers thinking. “He was such a wonderful young man.” Officer Amber Guyger said she mistook Jean’s apartment at the South Side Flats in the Cedars area of Dallas for her own ...