A petition is going to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole to grant George Floyd a posthumous pardon
Floyd once called Houston home. In 2004, he was charged with Delivery of a Controlled Substance. It was .03 grams of crack cocaine and Floyd was sentenced to 10 months behind bars.
The arresting officer, Gerald Goines is now charged in the deaths of two people over a botched drug raid in 2019.
Prosecutors says Goins may have used false evidence against 69 defendants in drug cases.
A second suspect allegedly involved in Floyd's case was never arrested.
Allison Mathis with the Harris County public defenders office says "If his lawyer had known then that Gerald Goins was not a credible police officer and that he had a history of lying on offense reports and on affidavits, then we think the result would have probably been different."
She says the pardon would correct the record in Floyd's case.
The petition now goes to the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole. If they sign off, it goes to Governor Abbott's desk for his signature.