Wrongfully Imprisoned Man Awarded $975K in Mistaken Identity Settlement
A Hawaii man wrongfully held for over 2 years due to a case of mistaken identity has received a $975,000 settlement. Learn how this injustice was finally corrected.
Joshua Spriestersbach, a 54-year-old man from Hawaii, was wrongfully imprisoned for over two years in a psychiatric hospital due to a case of mistaken identity. After this harrowing ordeal, Spriestersbach has finally received a $975,000 settlement to compensate him for the unjust incarceration.
The incident began in 2017 when Spriestersbach was homeless and sleeping on a park bench in Honolulu. Police mistook him for a man named Thomas Castleberry, who had an outstanding warrant for a probation violation. Despite Spriestersbach's insistence that he was not Castleberry, he was arrested and sent to the Hawaii State Hospital, where he spent the next two and a half years.
{{IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER}}Source: The New York Times
