Dallas prosecutors object to moving Amber Guyger's trial for shooting Botham Jean
Dallas County prosecutors filed a two-page motion Wednesday objecting to a request by the attorneys representing fired Dallas police officer Amber Guyger to move her murder trial to another county.
The response came two days after defense attorneys filed a motion arguing that the publicity surrounding the September shooting death of Botham Jean was so pervasive and inflammatory that Guyger could not receive a fair trial in Dallas.
Guyger, 30, was off-duty but still in uniform when she shot Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, inside his apartment. She told law enforcement that she mistook Jean's apartment for her own and thought he was a burglar. She lived one floor below him at South Side Flats, not far from police headquarters.
"To justify a change of venue based upon media attention ... the defendant must show that publicity was pervasive, prejudicial and inflammatory," Dallas prosecutor Douglas Gladden wrote.
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