Innocent Girl Held A Week in Jail in an Amazing Case of Lookalike Mistaken Identity

[FallenHero]

and this is why we instant check everyone that comes through my department.

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: preslove

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: thesurge
so uh what's the limit? two weeks of false imprisonment? one month? a year? how long before she's entitled to money.

Entitlement. :roll:

This wasn't a malicious act against her. It was life. She'll get over it.

You don't have to be malicious to be successfully sued. You have to be found NEGLIGENT! I think it's pretty clear that they were negligent in performing their duty. I say she should get $30-40k. 17 year old girls should not be thrown in adult jails because of an unclear photo and no fvcking name attached to it.

They were acting in good faith. Negligence has nothing to do with this. However, a small compensation is probably in order...5-10k is about it. A week in jail isn't that long and I highly doubt she is going to be scarred the rest of her life.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
She was 17. Yeah, I guess give her min wage for a week if she actually had a part-time job. When I was 17 and it was November, I was a high school senior with too many extracurricular activities to have a job.

So let's see 20 hours (OK we'll be nice, 30 hours) at what is it, $5.35 per hour? And then there's taxes....

Gahhhh. I'm so sick of people filing lawsuits.

While I agree that there are many frivolous lawsuits, FALSE IMPRISONMENT is a valid cause for one.

It's not like the cops had a vendetta against her and threw her in jail because they thought she was a loser. She was identified by a witness as part of a robbery. It wasn't a conspiracy.

The cops had cause. The cops did what they were supposed to do. And things wound up working the way they were supposed to. It's all part of this thing called life.

I certainly hope you don't think we should pay her for her time away from Myspace or text messaging if she wasn't employed right?

yes they should.

she spent a week in jail. that is pretty traumitizing. how much or little she made should not matter.

Aside from the part that she LOST A WEEK OF HER LIFE, and despite the fact that she was cleared of charge and the police admitted a mistake, she is going to get a negative public reaction from it. People will give her crap about it and there might be people that will refuse to believe she isn't a criminal.

Even a positive ID from a witness requires some looking into, and from the sound of it, and I doubt there wasn't another single person in the world that was with her at the time the robbery took place. If a person can attest to the fact that she was with them at the time, then why should either witness be weighed more than the other?

 

[Kelvrick]

So what usually happens when the cops think you did something? Do they have you in a holding cell until you go to trial? They gotta put you somewhere, right? Yes, I know jail sucks, but I honestly think there should be no restitution for mental anguish, suffering or any of that. Its not like the cops saw her walking along the street and just decided out of hte blue that she committed the crime, they had a suspect description and she matched it.

If they didn't bring her in, and it was her, the press would be all over the story of incompetent police officers letting a suspect walk right by them.

Its too bad that she couldn't produce an aliby or story quicker to convince them of her innocence before she was put in jail for so long.

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: waggy

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX
She was 17. Yeah, I guess give her min wage for a week if she actually had a part-time job. When I was 17 and it was November, I was a high school senior with too many extracurricular activities to have a job.

So let's see 20 hours (OK we'll be nice, 30 hours) at what is it, $5.35 per hour? And then there's taxes....

Gahhhh. I'm so sick of people filing lawsuits.

While I agree that there are many frivolous lawsuits, FALSE IMPRISONMENT is a valid cause for one.

It's not like the cops had a vendetta against her and threw her in jail because they thought she was a loser. She was identified by a witness as part of a robbery. It wasn't a conspiracy.

The cops had cause. The cops did what they were supposed to do. And things wound up working the way they were supposed to. It's all part of this thing called life.

I certainly hope you don't think we should pay her for her time away from Myspace or text messaging if she wasn't employed right?

yes they should.

she spent a week in jail. that is pretty traumitizing. how much or little she made should not matter.

Aside from the part that she LOST A WEEK OF HER LIFE, and despite the fact that she was cleared of charge and the police admitted a mistake, she is going to get a negative public reaction from it. People will give her crap about it and there might be people that will refuse to believe she isn't a criminal.

Even a positive ID from a witness requires some looking into, and from the sound of it, and I doubt there wasn't another single person in the world that was with her at the time the robbery took place. If a person can attest to the fact that she was with them at the time, then why should either witness be weighed more than the other?

Basically, you're saying that anyone who is arrested should be released if they can find just one other person to provide an alibi. Oh, yeah, that'll work great. Do you really believe that her parents didn't try to do something to get her out of jail?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
News to me.

Thanks, professor

 

[eits]

HAHAHAHA oh man, that's too funny...

if i were the girl, after reading this article and seeing the pictures, i'd laugh, too.