 Frederick Jeffery with his mother, Tina Baldwin. (Photo: Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle)
Jeffery pled guilty to the possession charge three days later in Harris County Criminal District Court and was sentenced to eight months in Texas State Jail.
On March 27, 2013, the Houston Police Department’s crime laboratory tested the material said to be in Jeffery’s possession and found that it contained no illegal substances. The Harris County District Attorney’s Office notified Jeffery’s attorney of this information in April, and the attorney filed a motion on May 1, 2013, to vacate Jeffery’s conviction.
A judge granted the motion that day and also dismissed the charge against Jeffery. Several years later, in 2016, Jeffery was wrongfully convicted of another drug crime based on misconduct by then-Officer Gerald Goines of the Houston Police Department.
– Ken Otterbourg
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