New Jersey
N.J. woman mistakenly jailed for 2 weeks can’t sue cops, appeals court rules
A New Jersey woman who was arrested at gunpoint and spent two weeks in a jail for someone else’s parole violation cannot sue the U.S. Marshals and police officers who detained her, an appeals court ruled last week.
Judith Maureen Henry, now 74, was held five years ago at the Essex County jail and at two jails in Pennsylvania, on a decades-old parole violation, according to a federal lawsuit Henry filed in 2020.
The warrant, which included Henry’s home address and driver’s license photo, was forwarded to officials in New Jersey and she was arrested at her Newark home on Aug. 22, 2019, by local officers and members of the U.S. Marshals Service.