Former HPD officer Gerald Goines awaits hearing his punishment after being found guilty of felony murder for his role in obtaining a no-knock warrant that led to the killing of a couple in 2019.
The sentencing phase continues after jurors convicted former Houston Police Department's narcotics officer Gerald Goines of murder.Disgraced Houston officer Gerald Goines' police record could be exposed during court on Wednesday following his murder conviction.
Those who were wrongly convicted, including Otis Mallet Junior, also testified. He was arrested in 2008 for drugs he never had, and his case was overturned.Attorney Murray Newman, who is not associated with this case, says information about the overturned convictions involving Goines could be used. "This case is overcharged. It should never have been charged with felony murder," Secrest said while his fingers pointed at prosecutors. "It got amped up to it because of the politics in their office, because of the media outcry, the pressure."Gerald Goines case already shifted Houston police and helped set the wrongfully accused free
"Everything that happened in that house, everything, flowed directly from that warrant - is a direct consequence," Keaton Forcht, one of the prosecutors, said. "But for Gerald Goines, those two individuals are now dead."
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