[Anatolii]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...144442562.html

An Atlanta woman says she was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days because police confused her for someone else with the same first name.

Teresa Culpepper says she called police to report that her truck had been stolen in August. But when they showed up at her home, they arrested her for aggravated assault committed by another Teresa.

"All she has is the same first name. The only descriptions that match are 'Teresa' and 'black female,'" Culpepper's attorney, Ashleigh Merchant told The Lookout. Culpepper, who is 47, didn't have the same address, birth date, height, or weight as the Teresa who was supposed to be arrested.

That is pretty messed up - I'd probably sue them. That's almost 2 months in jail for something she didn't even do! If I called in my car as stolen and ended up arrested, I'd be confused as hell then pissed. Craziness...

[serius_06]

Sounds like a lawsuit, the government has just produced another millionaire, I think I'd go for 1 million per day and make that tax free and you pay the lawyer fees, thanks in advance.

[TyncTyncSah]

Speakit, if someone does win a case in court, the loser has to pay for the attorneys of the accused, except in divorce cases.

[immelawealecy]

This case reminds me of the opening scene in BRAZIL, when an arrest warrant for a terrorist is misspelled, and the police burst into the wrong house and arrest the wrong man, because his name was similar. Then they take him back to the ministry where he's tortured to death. Oops.

I find that movie really disturbing - it was made more than a decade before 9/11 happened, but it is almost prophetic about the police state America is turning into.