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Ex-Dallas officer granted parole after conviction for wrongfully killing Black neighbor

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Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer convicted of murder for mistakenly killing her Black neighbor Botham Jean in 2018, was granted parole after serving seven years of her ten-year sentence. The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole approved her release over objections from Jean’s family despite rejecting her initial request in 2024. Guyger shot Jean when she entered his apartment thinking it was hers; the case drew significant attention due to its racial implications and parallels with other police shootings involving Black victims.
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Amber Guyger, a former Dallas police officer, has been granted parole by the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole (BPP) after serving approximately seven years for the 2018 murder of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St. Lucia. The BPP cited Guyger's lack of violent or assaultive arrests, satisfactory institutional adjustment during her incarceration, and participation in rehabilitation programs as reasons for granting parole. Despite being eligible on September 29, 2024, the actual approval came later when she was reviewed again in October 2024. The BPP did not specify a release date, leaving it to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to determine when Guyger will be released from prison.

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The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, which is appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, rejected Amber Guyger’s initial parole request in 2024, but approved her case over the objections of victim Botham Jean ‘s family the first time she was eligible to ask again.
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🔮 The board said the state prison system will determine when she is released.

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Ex-Dallas officer granted parole after conviction for wrongfully killing Black neighbor By asserted
officer → grant → neighbor
A white Dallas police officer convicted of killing a Black man in his apartment that she mistook for her own was granted parole Thursday after serving seven years of her 10-year sentence. asserted
she → convict → sentence
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole, which is appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, rejected Amber Guyger’s initial parole request in 2024, but approved her case over the objections of victim Botham Jean ‘s family the first time she was eligible to ask again. asserted
she → appoint → family
Guyger, 38, was convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of 26-year-old Jean, an accountant from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, who had been eating a bowl of ice cream when Guyger entered his home and shot him. asserted
Guyger → convict → him
Guyger was arrested three days after the shooting and was fired before her murder trial. asserted
Guyger → arrest → trial
She had faced up to life in prison or as little as two years. asserted
She → face → prison
Prosecutors initially asked the jury for a sentence of 28 years. asserted
Prosecutors → ask → years
The shooting drew widespread attention because of the strange circumstances and because it was one in a string of shootings of Black men by white police officers. asserted
it → draw → officers
Guyger’s sentencing hearing also included a stunning courtroom scene when Jean’s brother and the Black judge presiding over the case embraced the sobbing Guyger. asserted
brother → include → Guyger
At trial, Guyger said that after a long shift at work and still in uniform, she walked up to Jean’s apartment — which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third — and found the door unlocked. asserted
door → say → third
She said she thought the apartment was her own and that Jean was an intruder when she drew her service weapon and entered. asserted
she → say → weapon
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said Thursday that Jean’s family “strongly opposed this parole.” asserted
family → say → parole
“They stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served. asserted
sentence → stand → ?
A 10-year sentence was already a fraction of what was lost. asserted
what → lose → ?
Releasing Ms. Guyger after seven years makes that loss feel even smaller in the eyes of the system. asserted
loss → release → system
It is not smaller,” Merritt said. asserted
Merritt → say → ?
In 2024, a jury ordered Guyger to pay Jean’s family nearly $100 million in a federal civil trial. asserted
jury → order → trial
In granting her release, the board said it reviewed a “plethora” of information in her case. asserted
it → grant → case
The board said Guyger’s record did not include a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests or convictions, and showed she completed programs in her prison treatment plan to get and keep a job when she is released. asserted
she → say → job
The board said the state prison system will determine when she is released. asserted
she → say → ?
Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday. asserted
officials → respond → comment
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Report → start → news
Guyger’s legal defense team did not immediately respond to requests for comment. asserted
team → respond → comment
Dallas police said the department played no role in Guyger’s request for parole or the decision to release her. asserted
department → say → her
“The Dallas Police Department understands this decision may bring renewed attention and emotion surrounding the tragic death of Botham Jean. uncertain
decision → understand → Jean
Our thoughts remain with the Jean family and all those impacted by his loss,” the department said. asserted
department → remain → loss
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