Joshua Spriestersbach sued the state after he was held in the Hawaii State Hospital for more than two years under the wrong name, only to face new questions about his sanity.
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Honolulu incarcerated the wrong man for more than two years a miscarriage of justice that shows the cruel inadequacy of America’s approach to mental health.
Honolulu incarcerated the wrong man for more than two years a miscarriage of justice that shows the cruel inadequacy of America’s approach to mental health.
A new court filing seeks to remove any reference to an alias from his police records. But it also lays out how a doctor at the facility figured out he was not who they thought he was.