Posted on 10/05/2024 9:27:12 AM PDT by marktwain
On Wednesday, 25 September, 2024, Houston ex-police officer Gerald Goines was found guilty of two counts of felony murder. Reporters in the courtroom, when the verdict of guilty against former officer Goines was read, said they were shocked he was convicted. Goines has been unconfined for nearly five years after he retired in March of 2019.
The sentencing phase of the current trial will start on September 26, 2024. From click2houston.com:
The jury in the high-profile murder trial of former Houston Police Department narcotics officer Gerald Goines reached a verdict of guilty Wednesday afternoon.
Goines was found guilty of two counts of murder in the 2019 Harding Street raid that resulted in the deaths of Dennis Tuttle, Rhogena Nicholas, and their dog.
The ex-officer’s sentencing phase will begin Thursday at 10 a.m. He faces up to life in prison. The same jury will also decide his sentence after hearing from witnesses during the punishment phase.
After the shooting, Bryant testified that he heard former HPD Chief Art Acevedo tell several officers to turn off their bodycam video, to which they complied. When asked by attorney Manning if this was policy, Bryant testified “We are supposed to keep out bodycams on during a raid.”
Bryant was then asked by attorney Manning if any of the narcotics team had on bodycam video during the raid, Bryant said no but the narcotics team sergeant
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There is very little detail of forensics and ballistics related to that event.
My suspicion is that police kicked the door in, and shot the dog. The shotgun was pointed close to the wife, who instinctively pushed it way while at the same time, hearing the shot the rest of the police opened fire, and the injuries were primarily cause by friendly fire.
Would you say that every doctor who makes a fatal mistake in the operating room should also go to jail for manslaughter? We will need to build more prisons.
Is the intent of the doctor to kill you?
The intent of the police or FBI is to kill with those weapons drawn, loaded, safeties off and pointed at the innocent person.
It’s completely different.
“The couples’ neighbor SWATted them with repeated phone calls claiming the deceased were dealing drugs.”
This person needs to be up on felony murder charges, also.
He was formerly out of Austin so no wonder.
Good news...
Justice prevailed. This crap by these type of cops needs to end and maybe a few prison sentences will serve these a-hole cops right.
Enjoy the rest of your day, sucker.
Actually the ice cream machines are broken because they suck and are a giant pain and McD really should replace them. They used to have ones that worked.
The bodycam problem is because we hire bad people to be cops.
A Co-Conspirator does NOT have to have any knowledge of the crimes the other conspirators are going to commit, they only have to make an OVERT ACT in furtherance of the Crime.
PROSECUTE THE QUISLING JUDGE THAT SIGNED THE WARRANT.
I agree, however Honest Mistakes are exceedingly rare, most are deliberate and calculated.
Intent to kill matters, but so does overall intent. If someone points a realistic looking toy gun at an officer and he fires it is a mistake but not a crime.
If an innocent homeowner is no-knocked and people come crashing in with no explanation or warrant first, and someone in there points a gun at these beasts, it should now be murder if the occupant was killed and it was a good kill if the innocent shot the intruders.
Period.
When someone breaks into your house you have the right to defend yourself and family with deadly force if necessary. The intruder cannot use the excuse that he is a cop or that he’s at the wrong house. If he shoots the innocent individual he has committed murder.
Most of them will get trolled up in the “pushing misleadingly labeled gene therapy disaster” trials. Probably enough though, that they should just have to serve “marginalized” society for life with room and board compensation, maybe a few bucks to go fishing biannually...
He is a spook.
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