Lawyer for former police officer Amber Guyger asks appeals court to toss her murder conviction of Botham Jean

Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger appeals conviction in wrong-apartment murder of Botham Jean

A Texas appeals court is mulling whether to throw out the murder conviction of Amber Guyger for the 2018 killing of Botham Jean after the former Dallas police officer's attorney argued on Tuesday that she was acting in self-defense when she accidentally entered the wrong apartment and thought she was confronting an intruder. An attorney for Guyger, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence, argued before the Court of Appeals in the Fifth District of Texas in Dallas that Guyger should be acquitted of murder. Defense attorney Michael Mowla asked the three-judge panel to resentence Guyger on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide if it decides not to grant her a full acquittal. Mowla argued that the lower court judge erred by not instructing the jury to consider that Guyger had a "reasonable belief" that she was in her apartment when she shot Jean in the chest and killed him. "I agree she did intentionally shoot Mr. Jean because that was her intent. That was the truth. Those were the facts of the case," Mowla said.