The Texas cop who murdered a guy in his own apartment and tried to claim self-defense has been convicted of murder.I'm sure there's plenty of other places in the process where they could escape relatively unharmed. Appeals, time served, good behavior etc....
This whole case is fishy though. I can't believe the investigation didn't turn up a motive for the killing. Unless this chick was whacked out on meth or something, who the fuck enters the wrong apartment, shoots a guy, and when the prosecution offers you a lesser charge of manslaughter you go "Naw I'll take my chances at trial." Worked out well for her, dinnit?
I mean there had to be something else going on. It looked like a premeditated murder that she tried to play off as a case of mistaken residence. Rather than accepting her mistake and the penalty for it, she gambled that it'd get called self-defense? Bulllllllllshit. It looks much more likely she actually wanted to kill him for something and was fabricating a reason so she could escape jail time.
I hope they throw the book at her, but with her being white, female, a former police officer and in Texas, I would not at all be surprised if she gets the minimum sentence. (Which is 5 years.)
Still, some amount of faith in humanity was restored by this. The judge went out of their way to provide her with the chance at a minimum charge, telling the jury they could consider both manslaughter and the "Castle" defense. They went for neither and straight up said it was murder. Good on them. I hope she rots in jail for a good long time, because I'm sick to death of people dying for no reason and cops just getting to use their job as an excuse for being fucking terrible at their job.
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