A former Houston police officer facing charges after a 2019 deadly drug raid he led prompted a probe that revealed corruption within the police department’s narcotics unit has won a legal victory.
that prompted a probe which revealed systemic corruption problems within the police department’s narcotics unit and resulted in nearly two dozen convictions being overturned has won a legal victory after a judge dismissed two murder charges he had been facing in the case.had been set to go to trial in June on two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle, 59, and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, 58.
The Harris County Attorney’s Office said in a statement it was “shocked and tremendously disappointed” in Nelson’s ruling. “We’re now in a sixth year of a taxpayer-funded coverup of these murders. The Nicholas family still will not give up its ongoing fight to reveal the truth of what happened,” Mike Doyle, an attorney representing Nicholas’ family said in a statement.Federal civil rights lawsuits
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