Police try to use marijuana found in shooting victim's apartm to smear the case. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/13/lawyer-claims-police-seized-pot-smear-botham-jean/1297225002/ Police recovered 10.4 grams — or .37 ounces — of marijuana in a search of Jean's apartment, according to a police affidavit. The search "highlights just sort of the nefarious nature of their investigation," said Lee Merritt, an attorney for Jean's family. Merritt learned of the latest search warrant details shortly after Jean's funeral Thursday. Absolutely disgusting.

OH SWEET JESUS 10 WHOLE grams of the weed?!

Bring in state police to investigate. Its a conflict of interest otherwise imo.

You didn't have a warrant to break into the guy's house so I don't see how it can be used in the case.

Thank god for internal affairs

Atrocious. Have they looked into his history to make sure he wasn't a serial jaywalker or anything too?

Even worse, consider the implication: A police officer shoots a man in his own apartment, and the police reaction is to search his apartment looking for 'evidence'. This wasn't crime scene investigation, it was a search for reasons to discredit him and make the shooting seem justified.

I didn't even consider this, myself. Shameful. Britain's police are hardly perfect, but the system in America is scandalous in comparison. Of course, there's corruption here, but police are held to a higher standard.

This is absolutely disgusting. I'm actually furious at how blatant this corruption is now appearing. Cop murders innocent man in his own home Department then tries to frame the Victim to be the big bad guy in this It's absolutely sickening.

police also reported to have found knives in the kitchen

This case is literally as clear cut as it can be. Off duty police officer walks into a mans home and kills him. The way this investigation is carried out, and the verdict that arrives at the end will honestly be the final goalpost indicator of how far police are willing to go to bend the system and cover up their crimes and mistakes. If she gets away with it, there is no disputing that it isn't a few "bad apples" but a layer of society that is so steeped in corruption that they are firmly "the enemy", and a problem that needs to be tackled and cured.

Another account says Guyger entered the apartment through an ajar door, thinking it was her own. In that account, Guyger saw the silhouette of a person she believed to be a burglar from across the room. Nice to see that America is vetting their Police thoroughly. Giving people who can't even identify their own homes the responsibility to serve and protect... However, this is one reported scenario out of two, and this one seems the most unlikely. How is it possible that even if she made a small human error of walking into the wrong apartment, that she didn't realise after looking inside that none of the shit inside of the apartment was hers and looked nothing like her apartment? Also, would she not be hesitant to begin with if the door was "ajar". I know for a fact if I found my front door open, the last thing I think is; "Shit let me quickly investigate without checking anything like making sure the house is actually mine". Small thought I had, they should make it in the US that if you do shit like this and attempt to "cover it up" or sway opinion like they did by bringing the drugs up, and it turns out to be irrelevant/unrelated/corruption, then the cop that did it has to serve the equivalent jail-time/consequences.

Reports say he owns a microwave too, what a madman

Of course the defense attorney is going to claim the police seized it to smear the guy. The cops obviously had to do a search of the crime scene, and they're obviously going to seize the weed and whatever else they find. This sounds like people complaining about standard procedure.

Did ge also have gasoline readily available in his car?!

Alright, so apparently they did have a warrant to search the guy's apartment after the murder occurred since it is a crime scene. However, any drugs found are still not relevant to the case and should not be admissible in court as the murderer had no probable cause to enter at the time and they are completely irrelevant to the murder itself. I can understand the seizure was standard procedure for this sort of paraphernalia, but it's still got nothing to do with the scope of the case.

Good god, he might have been relaxed before someone busted in and shot him to death I was initially willing to be naive and assume that the incident was a fucked up tragedy for everyone involved, but this being published immediately smears the police involved in my eyes.

https://twitter.com/kokobutterfly0/status/1040593435214925824

Texas Rangers (state police) are the ones who are investigating, which includes searching a crime scene. The officers department is not involved whatsoever and shes currently sitting in prison awaiting trial. This isnt corruption or state police trying to justify the shooting, this is them just seizing illegal substances. Excellent work everyone buying into the defense attorney's nonsense.

Jeez everyone in here is out for blood except for OvB who is actually looking at the facts. Things don't look good for Officer Guyger, she's in jail awaiting trial for manslaughter (not murder unless they can prove intent). There's discrepancies in her story with contradicting details in the arrest warrant, court documents, and the star witness' account.

Its called a smear, You try to paint the victim as a criminal and hope you get a lesser sentence. The pot has nothing to do with whether she shot him or not and should have never been brought in as part of the case.

And the lunchbox does?

Black activists are going to have a field day with this. And they should. This entire thing is so fucking filthy.

Absolutely nothing? Nothing in his belongings have anything to do with the case, that's what people are saying here you dolt. It doesn't matter if the dude was carrying a fucking bomb or a pencil, what right does a cop have to break into your home and shoot you for no reason?

Clearly since they found bullet casings he was at fault. what is even weirder is that they did this explicitly before they turned over the investigation to the state police

Is that a bad thing? The whole internet saw Elon Musk smoke weed the other week.

Except this was released in an affidavit with a bunch of other mundane shit. The only official insinuating any smearing is the attorney for the deceased's family. Not a smear, just discussing things they found at a crime scene. Policd investigators seizing illicit items at a crime scene is not out of the norm whatsoever. Trying to play this off as the police department protecting their own is just retarded. They immediately had thr Rangers involved with the investigation and had her taken into custody.

Fucking decriminalize weed country-wide already. Oh, wait, I forgot - the Republicans control the national government right now, and the war on drugs is one of their favorite weapons to disenfranchise demographics that reliably vote Democrat.

Here is what the affidavit for search warrant says that the attorney is upset about: Affidavit to search Botham Jean's apartment An affidavit to search is basically the police trying to provide a probable cause so the judge will grant the warrant. In the affidavit they allege they expect to find things related to a crime, such as bullet fragments, bullet casings, blood, and illegal narcotics. The defense attorney is saying that they're going in there looking to paint the guy as a criminal, since narcotics aren't related to the crime. This is what the thread is about. The alleged smear is that language in the affidavit before the search was conducted. But OvB, what relevance do drugs have to the murder? Why would they bother to mention the possibility of drugs if not for nefarious reasons? I'm no expert on legal proceedings but if I had to take a guess I'd say it's being thorough looking for potential motive. They're going in there looking for things that may be connected to the crime. Drugs are connected to murder all the time. I feel like looking for illegal substances is standard practice for searches. The drugs weren't the primary reason for the search. The cops did indeed find a miniscule bit of drugs in the search. Nobody is going to give a shit that the guy had a tiny bit of drugs. They would have found the weed anyway in their search and probably tossed it in the report since it's an illegal drug. The weed was sitting on the kitchen counter.

So despicable. I wouldn't even doubt that they planted that to boot.