Murder trial of former Dallas officer pauses until Monday

DALLAS — The jury deciding the fate of a former Dallas police officer who shot and killed her unarmed black neighbor heard around five minutes of testimony on day six of the trial before being sent home.

Amber Guyger, 31, who is white, is on trial for murder after she shot 26year-old Botham Jean, an accountant who was alone in his apartment when she came through his front door. She has claimed she thought it was her own.

On Saturday, before the jury was seated, former Dallas police chief Craig Miller was called by the defense as an expert witness to testify about a condition called “inattentional blindness,” which he said is not universally accepted. He said he thought Guyger was justified in shooting Jean, based on “the totality of the evidence.”