False Arrests

Supreme Court Considers Suit Over F.B.I.’s Raid of the Wrong House

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Supreme Court Considers Suit Over F.B.I.’s Raid of the Wrong House

Very early on a fall morning in 2017, F.B.I. agents knocked down the front door of a home in Atlanta with a battering ram. Guns drawn, they set off a flash-bang grenade and charged inside. The couple who lived there, Hilliard Toi Cliatt and Curtrina Martin, barricaded themselves in a closet. The agents dragged Mr. … Read more

He Went to Jail for Stealing Someone’s Identity. But It Was His All Along.

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He Went to Jail for Stealing Someone’s Identity. But It Was His All Along.

In a beige-walled courtroom in eastern Iowa, a man who has been William Woods for his entire life faced a man who had been known as William Woods for much of his. That hearing on Friday brought an end to what prosecutors called “a Kafkaesque plot that resulted in the false imprisonment, involuntary hospitalization and … Read more