In a years-old motion to have the indictments quashed, attorneys argued that they failed to specify which of the tampering laws the disgraced HPD officer allegedly violated in the 2019 Harding Street raid.
ByDisgraced HPD officer Gerald Goines from the 2019 botched Harding raid appeared in court on Tuesday when two murder charges against him were dropped.A judge has tossed out two murder indictments against the former Houston police officer who led the botchedJudge Veronica Nelson made the ruling Tuesday after Gerald Goines' lawyer argued that the indictments were poorly written.
The indictments accuse Goines of tampering with a government record, but in her years-old motion to have the indictments quashed, DeBorde said the indictments fail to specify which of the tampering laws Goines allegedly violated.SEE MORE:
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