Houston Police Detective Could Face Execution for Killing Couple in Illegal "Drug Raid"

It's more likely he will get 5 years, like Amber Guyger did

If the races were reversed, this would be all over the news

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Prosecutors could seek death penalty for Houston officer in botched drug raid
Gabrielle Banks|November 21, 2019


The Houston narcotics officer at the center of a botched raid has been charged under a federal law that allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty if they can show the deadly search he planned was “unreasonable, unnecessary and unprovoked.”

Among seven federal criminal charges in his indictment, Gerald Goines is accused of willfully violating the constitutional rights of homeowners Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle, who were killed in the Jan. 28 raid that turned into a gun battle. If the raid happened “under color of law,” prosecutors could ask the court to consider the death penalty, according to federal law.

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Investigators say 55-year-old Goines made up an informant and lied in his application for a search warrant and other documents in preparation for the bust of the couple’s home on Harding Street. Police said they were looking for heroin dealers when they burst into the couple’s house. Authorities only turned up small amounts of marijuana and cocaine.

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