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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Cop Convicted of Gunning Down 26-year-old Inside Own Apartment Order to Pay 100 Million Dollars to Family

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A Texas jury convicts Dallas police officer Amber Guyger in the shooting death of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean.  The former office said she mistook his apartment for her own.   Jurors found Guyger used excessive force in the death in 2018 and violated his constitutional rights. Now in a three day civil trial, jurors awarded Jean's family $98.65 million. 

Joining Nancy Grace today 

 Benjamin Crump, a civil rights lawyer  representing Botham Jean's family,

Vincent Hill - private investigator

Kathleen Murphy - attorney

Caryn Stark  -  psychologist   

David Mack. - Crime Online investigative reporter

 

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listening. Terms apply. Crime stories with Nancy Grace. A man comes home after work.

0:38.0

He's sitting on his own sofa, eating ice cream with a TV on when he is shot dead by a

0:44.0

Dallas police officer, that officer, Amber Geiger, who had the defense that she thought

0:52.2

she was entering her apartment. Okay. And thought the guy sitting on

0:59.3

the sofa eating ice cream was an intruder. In the last days, former Dallas police officer

1:06.7

Amber Geiger ordered to pay nearly $100 million to the family of the victim.

1:17.1

Remember, Geiger convicted six years ago of killing the unarmed victim in his own apartment.

1:27.4

She told authorities, she thought, Botham own apartment.

1:33.2

She told authorities, she thought Botham's apartment was hers.

1:40.3

Her own body cam was not recording during the shooting because she had just gotten off work, but she still had her police issue revolver, was issuing orders and commands and responding

1:48.3

on her shoulder device and was wearing her uniform.

1:56.2

She appealed the conviction, but lost the appeal.

1:59.4

She came up for parole September 29 and after much,

2:05.3

much ado, was denied parole. The civil lawsuit accuses her of using excessive force in Jean's death.

2:17.9

Attorneys for the Jean family, including high-profile civil rights lawyer Ben Crump,

2:23.6

lauded the verdict and pointed out that Bothan was doing nothing more than sitting in his own home,

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