What confuses me is that I can't see why his testimony was all that crucial in obtaining the conviction in the first place. The basic facts were not in dispute. She entered the wrong apartment and shot an innocent man. Her excuse was that she was very tired. What did Brown add? In a way, he helped the defense because he said that he himself had sometimes accidentally entered on the wrong floor, and once he had even put his key in the lock of the wrong door before realizing his mistake. So he gave support to Amber's story that she actually believed she was in her own apartment and encountered an intruder. I don't think Brown's testimony was very important at all or should have made Amber's defenders angry.
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