Honolulu: Mistaken identity lands man in Hawaii mental hospital for over 2 years

Mistaken identity lands man in Hawaii mental hospital for over 2 years

The Hawaii Innocence Project says officials wrongfully arrested a homeless man for a crime committed by another person, locked him up in a state hospital for more than two years, forced him to take powerful medication and then tried to cover up the mistake by quietly setting him free. Attorneys representing Joshua Spriestersbach say he somehow got confused for a man named Thomas Castleberry. In 2017, Spriestersbach fell asleep while waiting in a food line outside a Honolulu shelter on a hot day. A police officer woke Spriestersbach up and arrested him. Spriestersbach assumed it was for laying on the ...

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