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BREAKING🚨 The Houston cop whose lie got a couple killed in their own home just pled GUILTY in federal court. Gerald Goines got a no-knock warrant by telling a judge that a confidential informant had bought heroin inside Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas’s house. He made the entire thing up. In January 2019, Houston police pulled up. Eighteen seconds later, they had broken through the door. Officers fired the first two shots at the couple’s dog, Star. Dennis fired next. At least 40 rounds were fired, most by police. Dennis, 59, and Rhogena, 58, were killed. They had lived in that house for more than 20 years. Star was killed too. Days later, Goines was in a hospital bed with his jaw wired shut. A lieutenant asked him to name the informant. He wrote “Reece,” then “But she should be scared.” Goines tried to tear up the paper but was too weak. The lieutenant tore it in front of him, pocketed the pieces and taped it back together later. Goines later changed his story and claimed he had personally bought the heroin. Prosecutors showed he was 20 miles away at the time. A jury convicted Goines of murdering Dennis and Rhogena. He is serving 60 years. Now he has pled guilty to two federal civil-rights felonies. More than 30 other convictions involving Goines have been overturned. Frederick Jeffery got 25 years after Goines testified against him. He spent nearly six years locked up. Texas’s highest criminal court found Goines invented drug buys, lied in the warrant and lied at trial. Jeffery’s conviction was thrown out. A longtime informant testified that Goines paid her to pretend she had bought drugs at homes she had never even visited. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.