The FBI Wrongly Raided a Georgia Family’s Home. Now Their Case Is Going to the Supreme Court.
On an early morning in 2017, Trina Martin was shocked by a pyrotechnic exhibit she compares to the Fourth of July. Except it was October, and it was inside her home in Georgia.
The FBI detonated a flash-bang in the house and ripped the door from its hinges to arrest Joseph Riley, a man who lived in a different house approximately one block over. The agents would not realize their mistake until after they stormed into Martin’s bedroom, handcuffing her then-fiancé, Toi Cliatt, at gunpoint.
In January, the Supreme Court announced it will evaluate whether a federal court ruled correctly when it barred Martin from suing over that nightmare scenario, in the case Martin vs. United States.
The two houses “share several conspicuous features,” wrote the 11th Circuit in its ruling, such as that they are “beige in color” and have “a large tree in the front.” Since it was dark outside, the judges said,
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