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HOUSTON, TX (WCCO) – As the verdict was announced one week ago and former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, the first reaction of many in the Twin Cities was celebration or even relief that a measure of justice was served.
But outside of Minnesota, another effort toward justice is underway: a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug case in Texas.
For a public defender, it was a nightmare scenario.
There was no reason to doubt the word of an experienced Houston Police Department Drug Task Force officer. The defendant was a Black man with prior convictions, including drug offenses.
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A Texas legal group on Wednesday applied for a pardon for the late George Floyd after the officer involved in one of his drug arrests was accused of forging government records.
Floyd was apprehended in 2004 in the Lone Star State for possessing 0.03 grams of crack cocaine and providing the narcotics to a second suspect, who then attempted to sell the drugs to former officer Gerald Goines, who was posing as a buyer, the Harris County Public Defender s Office wrote in its application.
Goines was arrested in 2019 and accused of lying on multiple search warrant applications and engaging in a “history of deceit and lawlessness, prosecutors said at the time. Goines was charged with murder and obstructing justice by falsifying records stemming from a botched drug raid that killed two people, and the then-55-year-old pleaded not guilty.