Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines is taken into custody and his defense attorneys Reagan Wynn, front center, and Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube, second right, react to the guilty verdict in his murder trial in the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. A jury found Goines guilty of two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and his wife Rhogena Nicholas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines, rear, is surrounded by officers as he is taken into the holding area after the guilty verdict in his murder trial in the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. A jury found Goines guilty of two counts of murder in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and his wife Rhogena Nicholas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines, second from left, stands with his defense attorneys Reagan Wynn, left, Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube, center, and Mac Secrest, right, at the Harris County Criminal courthouse after he was found guilty Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines, center, waits with family members for the jury to return to the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse for the verdict in his murder trial, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Judge Veronica M. Nelson watches as the jury enters the courtroom for the verdict in the murder trial of former Houston police officer Gerald Goines in the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, center, hugs prosecutors Tanisha Manning, left, and Keaton Forcht, right, as they wait for the jury to enter the courtroom for the verdict in the murder trial of former Houston police officer Gerald Goines in the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Family members of the late Dennis Tuttle wait for the jury to come into court for the verdict in murder trial of former Houston police officer Gerald Goines for the January 2019 deaths of Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, in the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. Tuttle's siblings, from left, sister, Elizabeth Ferrari, and brother, Ron Tuttle, Ron's wife, Kristy Tuttle, Ryan Tuttle, son of Dennis Tuttle, and family friend Kenneth Ledbetter. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Defense attorney Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube, left, and her client, former Houston police officer Gerald Goines, arrive to the 482nd District Court to await a verdict in his murder trial at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. Goines faces two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Defense attorney Mac Secrest, right, exchanges words with Harris County Sheriff's Deputies as he doesn't want his client former Houston police officer Gerald Goines, rear center left, removed before the jury has left the courtroom after a guilty verdict in the murder trial in the 482nd District Court at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, Pool)
Former Houston police officer Gerald Goines, left, and his defense attorney Nicole DeBorde Hochglaube arrive to the 482nd District Court to await a verdict in his murder trial at the Harris County Criminal courthouse Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, in Houston. Goines faces two felony murder charges in the January 2019 deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)