Attorneys representing the families of two people killed by Houston police in the 2019...
Attorney Michael Doyle answers questions following a news conference a lawsuit against the City of Houston related to the fatal Harding Street raid in 2019. Attorneys representing the families of two people killed in the raid, Rhogena Nicholas and Dennis Tuttle, asked a judge to dismiss claims against the individual officers so that they could bring their case to trial against the city more quickly.
It has been more than three and a half years since the no-knock raid that ended with the deaths of Nicholas and her husband, Dennis Tuttle, and the wounding of four officers by gunfire. In the weeks afterward, former Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said the raid was based on a lie, and the officer who led the raid — Gerald Goines — never had bought drugs at the home. A municipal court judge signed the raid warrant after Goines said he had used a confidential informant to buy heroin at the home.
Ogg also had prosecutors dismiss Goines’ active cases and began reviewing hundreds of convictions in which he had played a part in securing. Her post-conviction unit has overturned five convictions so far, and says as many as 70 defendants could deserve new trials. In a 10-page supplemental filing, Doyle and his fellow attorneys noted the city’s many appeals, including the jurisdiction where they first filed their case; their petition for pre-suit discovery, the city’s 11th-hour request to move the case from state court to federal court;. They also said the city made multiple attempts to stay the case, and then refused to adhere to orders to respond to depositions.
Cases in which police officers are the target of lawsuits, and also face criminal charges, are a “mixed blessing” for plaintiffs attorneys, he said.
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