Cop Enters Wrong Apartment, Kills Occupant, Says, "Oops, I thought this was my place."

Can the Castle Doctrine apply when you think it's your house?

And, even if so, does it allow for you to enter your house and engage a presumed intruder when you're safely outside to begin with?

Doesn’t matter now.

Wow, they didn't mess around!

If the roles were reversed, the guy she killed would likely get the death penalty.

Women do usually get lighter sentences than men.

My point is that killing a cop is a capital offense but cops never pay that price even in cases like this one.

Honestly, I would expect a man shooting a home invader to be protected by Texas’s castle doctrine law even if it was a female off duty cop.

In Alabama, killing a Peace Officer is only a capital offense if it's done during the course of performing their lawful duty, regardless of whether they are on or off the clock. I would imagine Texas would be in a similar boat.

Huh. I guess miracles do happen.

I'm glad my jadedness proved wrong in this case.

But, who knows? I've started following this case and I am more than a little bewildered by it.

Well obviously the reason for that is to be a deterrent to people shooting cops. If you knew you'd get only a decade or two for shooting a cop you'd be more likely to do it in certain situations.

And why should she pay a capital price for this? Clearly it's an accident. The prosecutor produced no evidence that it was a murder in the sense that she went to the apartment with the intent to kill him. Like I said a manslaughter charge and sentence is acceptable in this case.

Do remember, she is a woman and the blue line does not cover vaginas.

I have been wondering if they are saying laws and protections only apply to citizens and therefor killing immigrants is legal because only citizens are protected from murder.

Have you ever been right?

I mean about anything?

During your entire post-service life?

Wow, the big one: murder.

I didn't think that charge would stick as this seemed more tragic/negligent than malevolent, but so be it.

She's certainly facing a lot of years inside. Any guesses?

15 years. She serves 5.

Yes, I think it will be something like that.

One Botham died to bring us this information.



What? Oh come on, somebody had to...

I am not sure why Anna disagreed with that as it has long been an established truth.

https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx

You are an awful person and are going to hell.





But you'll have company since I still lol'd.

Showing regret and contrition during the trial will no doubt help her at sentencing.

Not sure it should have that big of an impact but it probably will.

the judge is...….not bright. Thus here's what might happen if the judge continues on her tardwardly tangent: the trial gets so fucked up there's an acquittal or a mistrial.
Justice will be served.....rare of course! Okay I stole that from shooter's meme.

Seriously though I hope actual by-god fair and rational justice comes from this - it's no guarantee but you never know! Whenever a cop fucks up in my county they are publicly shamed and fired and incarcerated and so forth. None have shot a suspect (that I can remember) since I've been living here thank goodness but many cops have been physically attacked but that's par for the course. Old cops seem to get stuck working at the movie theater
which must be because the only action was when a couple was caught having sex during a movie.

The ex-cop was found guilty of murder so it doesn’t matter now.

Actually, she cannot make an appeal based on the judge not allowing the castle doctrine. The jury considered it and was not advised against it.

What a waste of two lives. Had there been no gun they would have probably both had a laugh at her being at the wrong door and life would have gone on. Instead the dead man's family and friends will forever know the loss, and her family and friends will also have to deal with her imprisonment over something so stupid.

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She doesn’t seem to be as dumb as some people claim. She correctly deduced that castle doctrine wouldn’t help an aggressor in someone else’s home, gave that to the defense, and the jury still convicted based upon the facts. How is that stupid? She likely just removed one avenue of appeals by the defense and correctly so.

It sounds like maybe there is a reason she is a judge and maybe it is because she is kind of smart.

Maybe you should say something when you link to satire. I mean we do have Dicky and John here and they usually fail to understand subtle things.