吉姆·弗图诺 这名前达拉斯白人警员曾因杀害一名黑人男子被定罪；她当时误把对方居住的公寓当成自己的公寓。在10年刑期中服刑7年后，她于周四获准假释。
JIM VERTUNO The former 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. 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 the victim’s family the first time she was eligible to return.
由州长格雷格·阿博特任命的得克萨斯州赦免与假释委员会曾于2024年驳回安珀·盖杰的首次假释申请，但在她首次具备假释资格时，尽管受害者家属表示反对，委员会仍批准了她的申请。
Guyger was convicted of murder in the 2018 killing of Botham 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.
盖杰因2018年杀害博瑟姆·让而被判谋杀罪。让是一名来自加勒比海岛国圣卢西亚的会计；盖杰进入他的住处并开枪将其射杀时，他正在吃一碗冰淇淋。
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. 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 officer.
这起枪击案因案发现情离奇，而且属于白人警察枪击黑人男子的一系列事件之一，引起了广泛关注。盖杰的量刑听证会上还出现了一个令人动容的法庭场景：让的兄弟与主持本案的非裔法官相拥，安慰啜泣的盖杰。
During her murder 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. She said she thought the apartment was her own and that Jean was an intruder when she drew her service weapon and entered.
盖杰在谋杀审判中表示，她结束漫长的轮班后，当时仍穿着制服，走进位于四楼的让的公寓——那间公寓正位于她所住的三楼公寓上方——发现房门没有上锁。她说，当自己拔出配枪并进入公寓时，以为那是自己的住处，而让是闯入者。
Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt said Jean’s family “strongly opposed this parole.”“They stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served. A 10-year sentence was already a fraction of what was lost. Releasing Ms. Guyger after seven years makes that loss feel even smaller in the eyes of the system. It is not smaller,” Merritt said.
民权律师李·梅里特表示，让的家人“强烈反对此次假释”。梅里特说：“他们一次又一次站出来，请求盖杰服满刑期。十年刑期本来也只是他们所失去的一切的一小部分。七年后就释放盖杰女士，会让司法体系眼中的这份损失显得更加微小。但这份损失并没有变小。”2024年，陪审团在一桩联邦民事诉讼中判令向让委员会表示，盖格尔的记录中没有出现暴力或袭击性逮捕或定罪的相关记载，并显示她参加并完成了监狱治疗计划中的相关项目，以便在获释后找到并保住工作。
In 2024, a jury awarded Jean’s family nearly $100 million in a federal civil trial. In granting her release, the board said it reviewed a “plethora” of information in her case. The board said Guyger’s record did not include a documented pattern of violent or assaultive arrests or convictions, and showed she has participated and completed programs in her prison treatment plan to get and keep a job when she is released.
委员会称，她还“保持了令人满意的机构适应状态”。委员会表示，州监狱系统将决定她何时获释。德克萨斯州刑事司法部官员周四没有立即回应置评请求。
It said she also “maintained a satisfactory institutional adjustment.”The board said the state prison system will determine when she is released. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday.