Georgia man jailed and 'force-medicated' for a year due to mistaken identity

Georgia man jailed and 'force-medicated' for a year due to mistaken identity



Bizarre story. The guy's suing, and frankly I think I would too.

Quote:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that in October 2013, Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford ruled that the hospital could medicate Williams against his will so that he could be competent to stand trial on the charges levied against K.W. The court ruled at the time that Williams was not fit for trial because he insisted he was not K.W. In what attorney John Merchant called a “cruel irony,” K.W. was arrested and jailed twice and released while Williams was serving time for his alleged offenses. The error was not discovered until a social worker found that, according to jail records, Williams was already in jail during one of K.W.’s incarcerations. Williams was released from the hospital in February 2013, after a judge ordered that the two mens’ fingerprints be compared.

WRT fingerprints, why wasn't the prints compared early-on? A year?



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