one more case of the system doing the wrong thing, repeatedly. a many was locked up and drugged in spite of him telling everyone he wasn't the man they assumed him to be;

Every time Joshua Spriestersbach tried telling the doctors, nurses, and staff at a state hospital in Hawaii that they had the wrong man, no one listened and his protests were answered with drugs. After nearly three years, the blithering idiots running the hospital finally figured out their blunder and instead of fixing their mistake, they covered it up by quietly kicking Spriestersbach out on the street with only 50 cents to his name.

Now, after they tried covering up their mistakes, Spriestersback is suing and he will undoubtedly win.

In a lawsuit filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu that Hawaii officials apparently seem unconcerned with their actions and haven’t even responded to a petition seeking to correct his records to ensure the error never happens again.

Spriestersbach’s lawsuit alleges false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, malicious prosecution, abuse of process and other claims, according to KHON.

“The Department of the Attorney General has not been served with the complaint and have not yet had the opportunity to review it with our client agencies,” Gary Yamashiroya, special assistant to the Hawaii attorney general, said Monday.

“Prior to January 2020, not a single person acted on the available information to determine that Joshua was telling the truth – that he was not Mr. Castleberry,” the lawsuit said. “Instead, they determined that Joshua was delusional and incompetent just because he refused to admit that he was Mr. Castleberry and refused to acknowledge Mr. Castleberry’s crimes.”

The Hawaii Innocence project is representing Spriesterbach and they asked the court to correct this innocent man’s life. The filing by the Innocence Project explains how the state was looking for a man named Thomas Castleberry and grabbed the first person they saw instead, Spriesterbach.........read more.......