MI: Man wrongly imprisoned for FTR can’t sue state
The Michigan Supreme Court has stopped a man from suing the state after he spent more than a year in prison for a crime that wasn’t a crime.
The man was behind bars for 17 months for failing to provide accurate information for Michigan’s sex offender registry. The Corrections Department then discovered that he actually wasn’t required to register.
He was sent to prison in 2014. After more than a year, a Corrections Department employee “became aware that (he) was imprisoned for a non-existent crime,” said the man’s attorney, William Goodman.
The man’s lawsuit alleged his rights were violated by a failure to properly train and supervise employees who oversee the sex offender registry. But the Michigan appeals court said there was no certainty that a person mistakenly on the list would be arrested.
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I have heard some sleazy bureaucratic excuses and this certainly ranks way up there. Miss registering on time and a ‘sorry’ will get you nowhere. Send a guy to prison for a bureaucratic mistake and all you get is an excuse. No wonder we see what’s going on in this country. The criminals are the ones in charge of the prison system.
not a shock at all. Further evidence that the only way to correct the corruption is to overthrow the current corruption. trying to “vote” your way around it is just a sheep and two wolves voting for dinner..stop being the sheep.
Pardon my confusion of the article but it reads like the justices who denied his lawsuit are also saying that what happened to him was wrong. Speaking out of both sides of their mouths?? I don’t get it.
Be sure to read Chief Justice’s withering dissent. Hope he continues w/ the other lawsuits.
That’s the biggest bunch of bulls**t I have ever heard. The government makes up laws and rules as they go, imprison a man for 17 months, finds out he is innocent, then they decide for themselves that he can’t sue them. How convenient!
Can he appeal the Supreme Court ruling? In Kansas the Supreme Court there ruled you can sue for unlawful imprisonments and even set a dollar amount on the damages to a person that is unlawfully imprisoned for something he didn’t do , or a crime that wasn’t a crime.
Damages to a person that is unlawfully imprisoned for something he didn’t do , or a crime that wasn’t a crime. Just like everything else when it comes to sex offenders…………………{EXCEPT SEX OFFENDERS]
He probably can’t contest the state Supreme Court’s decision as that court is the final arbiter of Michigan law. Of course he could bring a federal lawsuit under 42 USC 1983 for deprivation of rights under color of law. But that is a long shot as the rules definitely disfavor the plaintiff. Any such lawsuit would no doubt chew up the $70,000 he already received. It saddens me, but it may be best if he just licked his wounds and moved on.
Veritas.