Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines looks on during the opening statement of his two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Family members of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas bring a photograph of the couple to the trial of retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. Goines' trial on two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Tuttle and Nicholas began Monday. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines, center, and his defense team arrive at 482nd District Court for his trial on two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines adjusts his tie as his defense attorney is wrapping up the opening statement for his two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas at the 482nd District Court Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Defense attorney Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube puts her hands up as she tells the jury that Rhogena Nicholas was shot and killed by Houston police officers because she didn't listen to their command and didn't raise her hands when the officers entered her house during the opening statement at Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. Retired HPD officer Gerald Goines was on trial for two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Nicholas during the Harding Street Raid. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Judge Veronica M. Nelson listens to prosecutors Keaton Forcht delivering opening statement for the trial of retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines at the 482nd District Court Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. Goines was on trial for two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Family members of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas bring a photograph of the couple to the trial of retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. Goines' trial on two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Tuttle and Nicholas began Monday. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines, right, goes back to the 482nd District Court after a brief break Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. Goines was on trial on two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines is photographed during the opening statement of his two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines is photographed during the opening statement of his two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas at the 482nd District Court Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines appears at 482nd District Court for his trial on two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Prosecutors Keaton Forcht tells the jury that retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines was one of four police officers that were shot during the Harding Street Raid as during his opening statement of the murder trial of Goines, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. Goines was on trial for two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines, center, listens to the prosecutor reading his two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Retired Houston Police Department officer Gerald Goines, center, and his defense team arrive at 482nd District Court for his trial on two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at Harris County Criminal Courthouse in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)