trenchfoot
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So then the biggest mistake she made was to rely on the rote reflexive training she had at the academy: "in any unexpected situation go for your gun and hope for the worst".
So then the biggest mistake she made was to rely on the rote reflexive training she had at the academy: "in any unexpected situation go for your gun and hope for the worst".
The family can forgive her all they want. Doesn't mean the state should.Didn’t the deceased family forgive her and and say the sentence was sort of harsh?
I may confuse do about this.
WHO SAYS SHE WONT??What, not the "he was black" and my training, and job culture as a cop has taught me to kill them before they can kill me, as a defense? That's probably closer to the truth.
If this BS were to be successful, she would probably try to get her job back, with back pay of course.
She has little to no chance of prevailing.
Gotta respect your hopefulness and naïveté.
I really don't think that years of experience in this area can be equated with "hopefulness and naïveté."
Appeals in criminal cases only rarely result in reversal. Less so for murder cases. Less still when the appeal is based on "the jury got it wrong" rather than legal errors made by the judge.
Her appeal will fail. You'll see.
While I agree with Woolfe, this appeal really has no chance, it would not really surprise me if they found some appeal that does. During the whole case there was the feel that the DA was waiting for the media coverage to end so they could quietly make the charges go away.I was trying to be, in part, a tad facetious...guessed I missed. But remember, this is Texas. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Technically, she has another "bite at the apple" here. She can argue insufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. However, as a practical matter, of all the grounds for appeal, this kind of appeal is least likely to succeed.
Most appeals involve allegations of error on the part of the judge. Error in admitting or not admitting certain evidence. Error in instructing the jury. Those kinds of arguments can win, if there really was an error, and if the error(s) were prejudicial to the defendant.
But this kind of appeal just says that the jury got the verdict wrong. Appeals courts give great deference to jury verdicts. They are virtually never overturned based on insufficiency of the evidence. That kind of appeal is generally a hail mary.
I see no allegation of judicial error here, or of ineffective assistance of counsel, or prosecutorial misconduct. Accordingly, I give her at best a 5% chance of prevailing here. Probably more like 1%.
Give Abbott time......I'm more surprised Abbott hasn't granted a full pardon and assigned her to his DPS security detail.
