Appeals and Investigations Have Prolonged the Jean Family's Trauma – CobCast Ep. 20

For the last few years, former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger has hoped to appeal her conviction and sentencing for killing an unarmed man in his apartment in 2018. But now that the state’s highest criminal court upheld her murder conviction and 10-year prison sentence Wednesday, Guyger may be running out of options.    

Meanwhile, the family of the man she shot and killed says they haven't had the proper chance to mourn their loved one, 26-year-old Botham Jean, throughout the years-long saga surrounding the fatal shooting. Guyger fatally shot Jean, who is Black, after she entered his home on Sept. 6, 2018. He was eating ice cream when Guyger came in. Guyger says she thought it was her place and he was an intruder, so she shot him. Guyger lived on the floor above Jean. She was arrested, fired from the department and indicted for murder. She was convicted and sentenced in 2019 and made an appeal last year.

After the appeal was filed last year, Alissa Charles-Findley, Jean’s sister, told me her family’s mourning has been prolonged.

'It Feels Like We Were Sentenced Too': For Botham Jean Family, the Trauma Never Ends

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