Why Would It Matter If Deputy Goforth Was Having An Affair?

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Why Would It Matter If Deputy Goforth Was Having An Affair?

The personal life of the slain sheriff’s deputy is no one’s business, but it could be important to his killer’s defense.

 

 

September 22, 201

5By Dan Solomon

 

Let’s put this right out there at the beginning: In the scope of the tragedy, it doesn’t make a bit of difference if Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth was having an affair. His personal life is none of our business, and any attempt to use the woman who claimed to be his mistress to smear the slain officer is vile. Talking about it does nothing for us except to hurt his family, who are already suffering enough. Goforth’s death is tragic and horrible regardless of the veracity of this woman’s claims, and no one should suggest otherwise.

 

A story like the one from the New York Daily News on Tuesday, which speculated on Goforth’s personal life, fails readers by introducing an irrelevant, but lurid, suggestion about the deputy. But there is one place where the detail, if it’s true, could be relevant: court. And Anthony Osso, the defense attorney representing alleged killer Shannon Miles, is in the very difficult position of trying to defend someone accused of doing something horrible.