A New Jersey woman who was arrested and spent two weeks behind bars over a mistaken identity cannot sue the U.S. marshals who arrested her because they are protected by qualified immunity, a court ruled.

Judith Maureen Henry was booked into the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark in 2019 after the marshals detained her, mistakenly believing she was another woman with the same name who pleaded guilty to drug possession and skipped her parole in Pennsylvania in 1993.

Henry sought to sue the marshals over the mistake, but a three-judge appellate panel ruled Thursday that the marshals acted on a “constitutionally valid” warrant and were protected by qualified immunity, which shields law enforcement from liability for wrongdoing.

“Their arrest of Henry relying on information attached to the warrant was a reasonable mistake, and therefore her arrest did not violate the Fourth Amendment,” Judge Thomas Ambro of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the ruling, according to the New Jersey Monitor.

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Henry repeatedly told marshals during her 2019 arrest that she was not the person they were after and asked them to compare her fingerprints to those of the actual offender. But nobody compared the fingerprints until 10 days after her arrest, when she was transferred to Pennsylvania, and she remained locked up for another few days before she was finally released.

“Henry’s complaint — that the Marshals failed to take her claims of innocence seriously — raises a host of policy questions about the role of the Marshals Service after they apprehend a suspect on a warrant for a crime they did not investigate,” Ambro wrote.

The judge said those questions include how strong a claim of innocence must be before a marshal investigates, who should investigate and how thorough an investigation should be conducted. He said a reasonable observer could conclude the answers to these questions would be easy to find and would impose “minimal burdens” on the marshals.

Marshals mistook Judith Maureen Henry for another woman with the same name who pleaded guilty to drug possession and skipped her parole in Pennsylvania in 1993. (iStock)

But, Ambro wrote, those policy questions should be up to lawmakers to address.

He also noted that the marshals were not involved in Henry’s continued detention.

The court also rejected allegations from Henry, who is black and from Jamaica, that she faced this treatment due to her race, sex, national origin and lower economic status.

“We need not accept this bare conclusion, and she offers no other allegations to support it,” Ambro wrote.

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An appellate panel ruled that the marshals were protected by qualified immunity, which shields law enforcement from liability for wrongdoing. (Getty Images )

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A district judge had refused the marshals’ request to dismiss Henry’s lawsuit against them, but Ambro reversed that ruling and ordered the judge to drop the marshals from the lawsuit.

Outside the marshals, Henry’s lawsuit named Essex County and about 30 law enforcement officers and government officials in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as defendants, accusing them of abuse of process, false arrest and imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, failure to train and supervise and conspiracy.

A woman relaxing at a beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, was reportedly run over by a police officer during a freak accident last week.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Star-Ledger. Wildwood Police Chief Joseph Murphy told the Press of Atlantic City that the incident involved one of the department’s Ford F-150 pickup trucks.

The victim, whose name was not released by authorities, suffered broken ribs, three fractured vertebrae and a lung injury, according to WPVI-TV, which cited the victim’s boyfriend.

Murphy said the officer driving the pickup was responding to an ordinance violation when the accident happened.

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“The officer was down there in performance of his duties on a call for service,” the police chief said. “Horrifically, he ran over a victim who was lying on the beach.”

Murphy added that the victim was visiting Wildwood while on vacation ahead of Labor Day weekend.

“There was a lot of help from people on the beach,” the police chief added. “The civilians on the beach did an incredible job.”

A bystander named Rose Simone told WPVI-TV that fellow beachgoers panicked when the pickup ran over the woman.

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People walk along the beach in Wildwood, N.J. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/File)

“Everybody was gathering around screaming, yelling at the person in the truck, ‘Stop! There’s somebody under your truck! You hit somebody!’” the Chalfont, Pa., resident recalled.

“A bunch of guys came around that were in the area, and they said we have to lift the truck, the front of the truck, to get her out,” Simone continued.

Simone told the Star-Ledger that she noticed the woman before the incident happened. The victim was wearing dark clothes while lying on a beach towel.

“It was an accident, clearly, but one that probably could have been avoided,” she added.

The victim is expected to survive.

A view of the beach in Wildwood, N.J. (Mark Makela/Getty Images/File)

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Fox News Digital reached out to the Wildwood Police Department for more information.

🔵 Boy rescued from swimming pool at the Jersey Shore

🔵 Tragic drownings continue in NJ

🔵 Families can take steps to protect unsupervised kids from pools

BERKELEY — A four-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical but stable condition after a rescue in Ocean County this Labor Day weekend, according to authorities.

The young child was rescued from a swimming pool at a home in South Seaside Park on Friday, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Police said the boy was unresponsive when officers arrived around 3:30 p.m.

He was rushed to the hospital. Authorities said the boy was alive as of the latest update midday Saturday.

Tragic drownings continue in NJ

At least 11 other families have lost children in accidental drownings in New Jersey since Memorial Day.

A missing four-year-old child in Middlesex County was found dead in a pond behind a home in Monroe on Tuesday, authorities said.

Another four-year-old boy in Bergen County drowned in his family’s pool in July.

Children aren’t the only ones drowning in New Jersey. A man swimming with friends drowned in the Cedar Lake Wildlife Management on Thursday.

Read More: Multiple drownings this week, with the latest in South Jersey

Protect unsupervised kids from pools

Drowning is a leading cause of death among young children four and under.

Nationally, drownings of children 15 and younger increased 15% from 2020 to 2021, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. That’s the latest data available.

The CPSC recommends families should install multiple protective measures around pools including fences, alarms, pool covers, and self-latching features to keep unsupervised kids away from the water.

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