Amber Guyger is denied parole six years after ex-Dallas cop wrongly shot and killed black man eating ice cream in his apartment

A erstwhile pistillate Dallas bull who wrongly changeable and killed a achromatic antheral eating crystal pick successful his flat has been denied parole.

Amber Guyger, present 35, has served conscionable 5 years down bars for shooting and sidesplitting Botham Jean, 27, erstwhile she mistook his flat for her ain on September 6, 2018.

She testified astatine her proceedings the pursuing twelvemonth that she recovered the doorway ajar, and changeable Jean - who had conscionable been eating crystal pick connected his sofa - due to the fact that she thought helium whitethorn beryllium an intruder.

Guyger was yet recovered blameworthy of execution successful 2019, and was sentenced to 10 years successful prison, but was up for parole precocious past month - connected what would person been Jean's 33rd birthday.

However, aft Jean's family, the Dallas County District Attorney and much than 6,300 radical signed an online petition protesting her release, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice denied her request, the Dallas Morning News reports.

An email from the section acknowledged the 'criminal victimization' that Jean's household faced successful the aftermath of the shooting successful its decision. 

'I wasn't expecting a effect truthful quickly,' Allisa Charles-Findley, Jean's sister, told WFAA. 'We were interviewed connected Monday by the parole commissioner - the pb commissioner.

'It feels similar a load lifted.' 

Allison Jean, Botham's mother, besides said the household 'feels a consciousness of relief' by the news, adding that it shows 'part of the accountability that she indispensable person for her actions.'

'My household feels a consciousness of alleviation having gone done the process and made a beardown petition for denial,' she told CBS News. 

'So the quality coming successful that the committee considered our petition is simply a consciousness of relief.' 

The grieving parent has antecedently said she does not consciousness that Guyger felt remorse for the fatal shooting aft her erstwhile failed appeals, with Texas' highest transgression tribunal upholding her condemnation and the US Supreme tribunal declining to reappraisal the lawsuit successful 2022.

Allison Jean went connected to convey everyone who sent emails and letters to the parole committee opposing Guyger's release, and successful a connection from Jean's family, provided by lawyer Allisa Charles-Findley said: 'This is 1 precise important constituent of justness for [the family] for the senseless decease of their member and lad portion helium was unarmed and minding his ain concern successful his ain home.'

Jean's decease sparked monolithic protests crossed Dallas, and Guyger was fired from the constabulary section successful the aftermath.

For years, she has repeatedly tried tried to entreaty her conviction, claiming that her mistaking Jean's flat for her ain was reasonable, and therefore, truthful excessively was the shooting.

Her lawyer tried to get the appeals tribunal to acquit her of execution oregon substitute successful a condemnation for criminally negligent homicide, which carries a lesser sentence.

But Dallas County prosecutors argued that the mistake was not reasonable, that Guyger acknowledged intending to termination Jean and that 'murder is simply a result-oriented offense.'

The court's main justice, Robert Burns III, and Justices Lana Myers and Robbie Partida-Kipness concurred with prosecutors, disagreeing that Guyger's content that deadly unit was needed was reasonable.

In a 23-page opinion, the justices besides disagreed that grounds supported a condemnation of criminally negligent homicide alternatively than murder, pointing to Guyger's ain grounds that she intended to kill.

'That she was mistaken arsenic to Jean's presumption arsenic a nonmigratory successful his ain flat oregon a burglar successful hers does not alteration her intelligence authorities from intentional oregon knowing to criminally negligent,' the judges wrote. 

'We diminution to trust connected Guyger's misperception of the circumstances starring to her mistaken beliefs arsenic a ground to betterment the jury's verdict successful airy of the nonstop grounds of her intent to kill.'

Guyger then asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals - the state's highest forum for transgression cases - to reappraisal the appeals court's ruling.

But the tribunal declined to perceive her lawsuit successful March 2022, upholding her sentence, according to WFAA.

As she faced parole successful September, thousands signed an online petition urging the parole to contradict her request.

'Amber Guyger was convicted of execution and sentenced to 10 years successful prison,' the petition said. 'This condemnation was intended to service arsenic a measurement of justness for Botham Jean and his family, and arsenic a connection that specified actions volition not beryllium tolerated.

'Granting parole astatine this clip would undermine the severity of the transgression and the justness that was sought done the ineligible process.

'Allowing Amber Guyger to beryllium released aboriginal would not lone beryllium a disservice to Botham Jean's memory, but besides to the principles of justness and accountability,' the petition, which has garnered astir 1,700 signatures arsenic of Tuesday evening, continues.

'We judge that Amber Guyger should service her afloat condemnation arsenic a reflection of the gravity of her actions and to uphold the integrity of our justness system.

'We impulse the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to contradict her parole petition and guarantee that justness is afloat served for Botham Jean and his family.' 

Guyger present won't beryllium eligible for parole again until 2026.