Texas
Related: About this forumOgg: Case involving George Floyd was among Goines cases being reviewed by prosecutors
HOUSTON A 16-year-old drug case involving George Floyd was among the hundreds of cases connected to ex-Houston police Officer Gerald Goines that are being reviewed by prosecutors, according to Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.
Speaking to Khambrel Marshall during an interview that will air on Sundays edition of Houston Newsmakers, Ogg said that Floyd, a Houston native who died while being detained by police in Minnesota on Memorial Day, was convicted by Goines as part of a single-witness drug case in 2004.
Cases involving Goines were questioned after he was charged with murder and tampering with a government record in connection with the 2019 raid on a Harding Street home that ended with officers shooting and killing Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. Goines is accused of lying on the affidavit used to obtain the warrant that led to the raid. County prosecutors have said they anticipate having to clear more than 100 cases involving Goines.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/06/05/ogg-case-involving-george-floyd-was-among-goines-cases-being-reviewed-by-prosecutors/
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)They don't care if the real criminal is free to commit more crimes.
The police just want convictions. Period.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)There are people trying to make a lot of hay off this conviction, and its dubious nature should be more widely known.
Vogon_Glory
(9,084 posts)The falsehood ought to be thrown in the right-wingers faces.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)That the conviction is based on a perjury is a fair presumption. The man seems to have done a good deal of 'testi-lying'....