Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon George Floyd for 2004 drug conviction
Apr 28, 2021 09:08:07 #
Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon George Floyd for 2004 drug conviction
The Harris County District Attorney's Office in Texas is supporting an effort to posthumously pardon George Floyd for a conviction that was built on the lone word of a former Houston police officer who now faces felony murder charges and allegations of manufacturing evidence.
The news comes one week after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd last May.
What are the details?
Allison Mathis, a public defender who works in Harris County, filed the pardon request with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday.
Mathis said the request is not a reflection of the fact that Floyd turned his life around after leaving the criminal justice system for the last time in 2013, but because the arresting officer in one of Floyd's arrests "manufactured the existence of confidential informants to bolster his cases against innocent defendants," CNN reported.
Specifically, Mathis is seeking a pardon for a 2004 drug arrest in which the arresting officer, Gerald Goines, accused Floyd of dealing a small amount of crack cocaine. Floyd later plead guilty and served 10 months in jail.
More from CNN:
On February 5, 2004, Floyd was arrested and charged with delivery of a controlled substance with the arresting officer, Gerald Goines, alleging at the time of arrest that Floyd possessed crack cocaine "and that Floyd had provided the drugs to an unnamed 'second suspect' who had agreed to sell the drugs to the undercover Goines. The 'second suspect' was not arrested, Goines noted in his offense report, 'in a [sic] attempt to further the narcotic trafficing [sic] in this area.'"
"This is about honoring the memory of George Floyd, as well as about correcting the records of the State of Texas," Mathis told CNN. "We can't have confidence in the integrity of the convictions obtained by Officer Goines. George Floyd suffered at the hands of a corrupt and racist system throughout his life, not just at the end."
Goines was charged with two counts of felony murder last year after a botched drug raid resulted in the deaths of two people. Goines allegedly lied to obtain a "no-knock" search warrant. The incident triggered a review of 14,000 cases involving Goines and other officers who participated in the raid, KARE-TV reported. As many as 69 people may have been convicted falsely based on information Goines allegedly manufactured against them, according to KTRK-TV.
Prosecutors attempted to reach Floyd in 2019 about the investigation into Goines, but officials were unable to reach Floyd, who had since moved to Minnesota, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Mathis said Floyd deserves a pardon because he was a victim of corrupt police work.
"It is our contention that Goines did the same thing in George Floyd's case as he did in the cases of so many others: He made up the existence of a confidential informant who provided crucial evidence to underpin the arrest and no one bothered to question the word of a veteran cop against that of a previously-convicted Black man," Mathis said.
What did the DA say?
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said her office fully supports the petition to relieve Floyd of the 2004 conviction.
"As part of our ongoing investigation of police corruption exposed by the Harding Street killings, we looked into posthumous relief for a 2004 drug conviction that ensnared George Floyd in the criminal justice system so long ago," Ogg said in a statement.
"Prosecutors determined in 2019 that Floyd had been convicted on the lone word of Gerald Goines, a police officer we could no longer trust; we fully support a request that the Governor now pardon George Floyd from that drug conviction," she added.
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The Harris County District Attorney's Office in Texas is supporting an effort to posthumously pardon George Floyd for a conviction that was built on the lone word of a former Houston police officer who now faces felony murder charges and allegations of manufacturing evidence.
The news comes one week after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd last May.
What are the details?
Allison Mathis, a public defender who works in Harris County, filed the pardon request with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday.
Mathis said the request is not a reflection of the fact that Floyd turned his life around after leaving the criminal justice system for the last time in 2013, but because the arresting officer in one of Floyd's arrests "manufactured the existence of confidential informants to bolster his cases against innocent defendants," CNN reported.
Specifically, Mathis is seeking a pardon for a 2004 drug arrest in which the arresting officer, Gerald Goines, accused Floyd of dealing a small amount of crack cocaine. Floyd later plead guilty and served 10 months in jail.
More from CNN:
On February 5, 2004, Floyd was arrested and charged with delivery of a controlled substance with the arresting officer, Gerald Goines, alleging at the time of arrest that Floyd possessed crack cocaine "and that Floyd had provided the drugs to an unnamed 'second suspect' who had agreed to sell the drugs to the undercover Goines. The 'second suspect' was not arrested, Goines noted in his offense report, 'in a [sic] attempt to further the narcotic trafficing [sic] in this area.'"
"This is about honoring the memory of George Floyd, as well as about correcting the records of the State of Texas," Mathis told CNN. "We can't have confidence in the integrity of the convictions obtained by Officer Goines. George Floyd suffered at the hands of a corrupt and racist system throughout his life, not just at the end."
Goines was charged with two counts of felony murder last year after a botched drug raid resulted in the deaths of two people. Goines allegedly lied to obtain a "no-knock" search warrant. The incident triggered a review of 14,000 cases involving Goines and other officers who participated in the raid, KARE-TV reported. As many as 69 people may have been convicted falsely based on information Goines allegedly manufactured against them, according to KTRK-TV.
Prosecutors attempted to reach Floyd in 2019 about the investigation into Goines, but officials were unable to reach Floyd, who had since moved to Minnesota, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Mathis said Floyd deserves a pardon because he was a victim of corrupt police work.
"It is our contention that Goines did the same thing in George Floyd's case as he did in the cases of so many others: He made up the existence of a confidential informant who provided crucial evidence to underpin the arrest and no one bothered to question the word of a veteran cop against that of a previously-convicted Black man," Mathis said.
What did the DA say?
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said her office fully supports the petition to relieve Floyd of the 2004 conviction.
"As part of our ongoing investigation of police corruption exposed by the Harding Street killings, we looked into posthumous relief for a 2004 drug conviction that ensnared George Floyd in the criminal justice system so long ago," Ogg said in a statement.
"Prosecutors determined in 2019 that Floyd had been convicted on the lone word of Gerald Goines, a police officer we could no longer trust; we fully support a request that the Governor now pardon George Floyd from that drug conviction," she added.
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Apr 28, 2021 10:26:03 #
He pled guilty . But the cop was dirty I don't know. I guess. good call? cops are accountable for their arrests and shouldn't be. making up crap just to get a conviction.
Apr 28, 2021 10:27:28 #
microphor
Loc: Home is TN
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon ... (show quote)
I can't take it anymore! A criminal becomes a martyr. I wonder what that pregnant woman who good ole boy Floyd held a gun to her belly feels about making him a martyr? Anybody know? Has anyone interviewed his victims? I'd love to have the links to those interviews if so.
Apr 28, 2021 10:48:52 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
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Well really, Old Sailor, He is a national hero and national treasure after all. I say he should be on Mt. Rushmore.
Apr 28, 2021 10:51:49 #
skyrider wrote:
Well really, Old Sailor, He is a national hero and national treasure after all. I say he should be on Mt. Rushmore.
You must mean 'UNDER MT RUSHMORE"
Apr 28, 2021 10:52:32 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon ... (show quote)
All this will accomplish is more piss on George (Barabbas) Floyd's grave.
By the way, it's in Houston Memorial Gardens section 45.
Apr 28, 2021 11:02:36 #
Michael Rich
Loc: Lapine Oregon
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon ... (show quote)
Given enough time and St. Fentanyl-Floyd will be on all our currency.
Apr 28, 2021 11:16:52 #
Ronald Hatt
Loc: Lansing, Mich
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon ... (show quote)
If the *Demoncrats want that so badly....I say *Erect world monuments to: Idi Ameen, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Jeffrey Dahmer, the Green river rapist, & other serial rapists/murderers.....Demoncrats, have such Great ideas....They come from the depths of insanity, & mindlessness!
Never in the history of mankind, has there been so ***much total insanity, & idiocy***, as what has evolved from the *Demoncrat party,& their worshipping of Abortion, & lawlessness!
ARE THERE ANY "SANE DEMONCRATS" LEFT IN THIS COUNTRY? "WHERE ARE THEY"?
Make martyrs, out of gross criminals? Is Floyd "great", because he committed personal suicide, through personal ignorance?
Apr 28, 2021 11:21:16 #
Ronald Hatt
Loc: Lansing, Mich
What America is witnessing here, is total political insanity, & dehumanization of the races! Criminals are subject to the Justice system, { or, used to be}...Now, they are Heroes?
break the law, suffer the personal consequences for that bad decision! resist arrest, & it may cost you your life! what next? Arrest,& imprison the "victim"? YEAH!...That makes total sense! { That's a *demoncrat thing}
How does one even "admit" to being a Demoncrat? That's a total disgrace!
break the law, suffer the personal consequences for that bad decision! resist arrest, & it may cost you your life! what next? Arrest,& imprison the "victim"? YEAH!...That makes total sense! { That's a *demoncrat thing}
How does one even "admit" to being a Demoncrat? That's a total disgrace!
Apr 28, 2021 16:05:01 #
Michael Rich wrote:
Given enough time and St. Fentanyl-Floyd will be on all our currency.
No, just the $20 bills. And it stead of "In God we trust" it will read, "I Can't breathe,"
Apr 28, 2021 16:07:04 #
Ronald Hatt wrote:
If the *Demoncrats want that so badly....I say *Er... (show quote)
***because he committed personal suicide, through personal ignorance?
>>>Thanks for posting it that way. Because that is the truth. He wasn't murdered.
Apr 28, 2021 16:30:46 #
ImLogicallyRight wrote:
No, just the $20 bills. And it stead of "In God we trust" it will read, "I Can't breathe,"
Apr 28, 2021 20:26:57 #
Michael Rich
Loc: Lapine Oregon
ImLogicallyRight wrote:
No, just the $20 bills. And it stead of "In God we trust" it will read, "I Can't breathe,"
The Fresh Prince of No Air.
Apr 29, 2021 08:50:45 #
Oldsailor65 wrote:
Houston DA supports effort to posthumously pardon ... (show quote)
What about rape , burglary , etc etc etc?
Apr 29, 2021 15:49:46 #
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