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For Jurors, A Manslaughter Conviction Likely Wasn’t Possible For Amber Guyger

KWBU | By Jill Ament,
Rhonda Fanning
Published October 3, 2019 at 8:22 AM CDT
Kaufman County Sheriff's Office Jail
Amber Guyger turned herself in to police after she shot and killed Botham Jean in his own apartment in 2018. She claimed she had mistakenly thought he was a burglar in her apartment. She lived one floor directly below him in the same building.

A Houston legal scholar says that’s because Guyger admitted in court that she intended to kill Botham Jean when she encountered him, even though she mistakenly thought he was an intruder in her apartment.
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Jill Ament
Jill Ament is a reporter at KWBU. She hails from right here in Central Texas, growing up down the road in Gatesville. She graduated from Texas State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in May of 2012.
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Rhonda Fanning
Rhonda joined KUT in late 2013 as producer for the station's new daily news program, Texas Standard. Rhonda will forever be known as the answer to the...
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