No wonder Amber was wound so tight coming home in that neighborhood. Who wouldn’t be? Especially a small female cop just getting off shift.
I personally think she screwed up but for there to be a crime I thought their had to be intent to commit a crime so she was screwed by the court system. I could see some kind of punishment and a reprimand in her police file but then again she wasn’t on duty at the time. Just a bad thing all around.
When your actions are reckless, or devoid of concern for others that is sufficient to establish criminality.
Sadly Ms. Guyger's actions, regardless of her motivations, were utterly reckless. Shooting somebody sitting on their sofa because you went into their apartment thinking it was yours is definitely an example of an action which in and of itself establishes criminality.
Second Degree murder only requires that your actions were without regard to the consequences. She may not have planned to shoot the person she did, but she should have been aware that getting off at the wrong floor, going to an apartment that her key did not fit and that a welcome mat that was not hers should have led her to a proper conclusion that she was not at her apartment.
However, she disregarded all that and shot a man anyway.
Drugs can do anything
No there doesn’t need to be intent. Ever hear of negligent homicide? Manslaughter? Neither has intent, unless something worse gets pleaded down somehow.
She screwed the pooch big time. Shot first, asked questions later, may have tried to cover it up. She’s guilty as far as I am concerned.