State Rests in Guyger Trial, Defense to Present Case Friday

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – Testimony in the murder trial for former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger continued Thursday in a Dallas County courtroom.

Watch: Amber Guyger Trial: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3

(WBAP/KLIF) UPDATE 2:10

The Judge in the Amber Guyger Murder trail recessed for the day just after 2 p.m. Thursday after the State of Texas rested its case.

The Defense will begin presenting its case Friday. The Judge ordered court to be held Saturday from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Guyger is expected to testify, but it’s not known when.

(WBAP/KLIF) UPDATE 12:32PM

Amber Guyger told Police last September she shot and killed Botham Jean after mistaking his apartment for her own. She said she was in fear for her life when she saw Jean’s silhouette in the apartment. The prosecution pointed out Thursday that Guyger had a taser on her belt, but Texas Ranger Michael Adcock testified that’s not the go to tool if encountering deadly force.

“Deadly threat would be the handgun, the weapon,” said Adcock. “If it was me I probably go for the handgun.”

The prosecution argued Botham Jean was on his couch and didn’t pose a threat.

Dallas (WBAP/KLIF) – On Day 3 of the trial, DPS Trooper David Armstrong, who led the state investigation into the police shooting of Botham Jean told the presiding judge Wednesday that he didn’t believe former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger did anything wrong when she shot him last September; that testimony was barred from being heard by the jury.

Guyger contends that she mistook Jean for an intruder when she mistakenly entered his apartment instead of her own.

Meantime, Attorney Lee Merritt, one of the lawyer’s representing Jean’s family tweeted that Armstrong made the same comment to him a day before he began his investigation.

Merritt also wrote, “no wonder his subsequent investigation confirmed his preconceived conclusion. he has no credibility.”

Judge Kemp rightly excluded his findings from going before the jury. https://t.co/xm58871Kfu

— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) September 25, 2019

Meantime, in other testimony on Monday, the Dallas County medical examiner testified that the bullet that entered Jean entered that chest area and traveled downward at a slight angle, suggesting that he may have been seated and/or in the process of getting up.

Other evidence showed that Jean was using a laptop, watching TV and eating ice cream when the incident began.