Another WTF. Amber guyger defense claims you can now get drunk, break into

[Baitball Blogger]

Someone’s house, shoot him and claim you thought you were in your own home and get away with it.
Judge is allowing jury to consider castle rule.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/09/30/jury-consider-castle-doctrine-amber-guyger-murder-trial/

[rampartc]

1. whatever she thought, it was never her "castle."

the victim would have been justified in shooting her, I suppose.

[True Dough]

2. If the castle doctrine applied

the rightful occupant of the apartment should have shot her!

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Gee, I wonder how THAT woulda turned out?

[regnaD kciN]

6. Well, it's a sure bet he wouldn't have lived long enough to get tried...

Everyone knows #BlueLivesMatter…especially to other cops.

[leftstreet]

8. I think they're hoping for Princess in The Castle Doctrine n/t

[gratuitous]

4. A friend does small potatoes criminal defense work

She picked up a pro bono folder and had an interview with the defendant. He told her that, when it came right down to it, the other traffic at the stop light he ran really should have seen that he wasn't going to stop and that he wasn't going to stop just as they got their green light. So, you know, shouldn't they be on the hook for not keeping a proper lookout for other traffic?

My friend listened to him spin out this novel legal theory, and said, "So what you're saying is that you should be allowed to drive any way you want, blow through stop signs and red lights, and it's up to everyone else to watch out for you?"

[Baitball Blogger]

9. And the other day someone in a congressional

Hearing told a congress woman that she worked for him because he paid taxes. The thing is, this was the rally cry for the loudmouths in my community to take over local government, which was admittedly steep in conservative authoritarianism. The result was not pretty.

We are in a serious situation where the cuckoos in the clock want to ignore the purpose of the mechanism and determine the time based on their own gut feelings - and personal interest.

[a kennedy]

5. She'll walk.

[regnaD kciN]

7. Not a shred of doubt about that...

[MineralMan]

12. Really? Jury just found her guilty of murder.

What do you say now?

[a kennedy]

10. Guilty, guilty, guilty..

Call me shocked

[honest.abe]

16. Good.

Gun-toters need to think hard before pulling that trigger.

[MineralMan]

11. That trick didn't work. The jury convicted her of murder.

[Grammy23]

13. I was trying to think of any way she could walk on this crime

and just couldn’t imagine it. Even twisting the logic like a pretzel. She was the one wrong at every step of this terrible tragedy. The victim made no mistakes other than being home at the wrong time....sadly for him. Every decision she made fell on her shoulders. So how could a jury not find her guilty? And also not working in her favor was the fact that she was a police officer, allegedly trained in decision making steps before using your weapon. So there were not a lot of excuses for her to utilize in her defense.

Guilty. Yes, she was.

Now comes sentencing. She could get 99 years but I do not think she should receive that. A lengthy time behind bars is fair. But life? No.

[MineralMan]

14. I will leave the sentencing to the court.

You are correct, though. Reason and logic were rightly used in this case, and recognized by the jury. Any reasonable person would have recognized that the apartment was the wrong apartment. That should have ended the incident immediately. The decision to pull a pistol and shoot demonstrated a depraved lack of reason on her part and a completely innocent man died.

[ConnorMarc]

15. But according to many police, she acted reasonably.

At least according to the police witness they had on the stand.

Seems like the tide's changing, police are starting to get locked up for killing black people.

GoodT!