Joshua Spriesterbach sued the state of Hawaii after officers and doctors mistook his identity and institutionalized him for nearly three years.
A formerly homeless man, who was in a mental institution for two years and eight months due to a mistaken identity, is suing the state of Hawaii and several police officers, public defenders and doctors.
A police officer mistook Spriesterbach for Thomas Castleberry, who violated probation on a 2006 drug case, and arrested him. The AP reported that in 2011, Spriesterbach gave authorities the name Castleberry, his grandfather's last name, when he was arrested for sleeping in a middle school stairwell, which might have been the origin of the mix-up.
The more he insisted that he was innocent, the more doctors thought he was psychotic, keeping him at the hospital until one doctor finally believed him.
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