Amber Guyger , the former Dallas, Texas, police officer who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 after she was convicted of murdering 26-year-old accountant Botham Jean in his own apartment while off-duty on September 6, 2018, was just denied a chance at parole, meaning she will have to wait two more years to try again.
Records reviewed by Law&Crime show that the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole on Thursday set Guyger’s next parole review date for October 2026 after denying her a “favorable parole action.”
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The reason for the denial? Guyger is still considered a danger to society.
The “nature of [the] offense” for which she was found guilty contained “elements of brutality, violence, assaultive behavior, or conscious selection of [the] victim’s vulnerability indicating a conscious disregard for the lives, safety, or property of others, such that the offender poses a continuing threat to public safety,” the board determined.
Guyger, 36, could two years from now again seek an early prison exit, but unless that happens her sentence is set to run until Sept. 9, 2029.