Source: New York Post
“A New Jersey woman served two weeks of someone else’s parole violation — and those responsible for her wrongful incarceration are apparently constitutionally protected from blame, a federal appellate court ruled. Judith Maureen Henry, hailing from New Jersey, shares her name with another woman who pleaded guilty to drug possession and skipped out on her parole in Pennsylvania during the 1990s. In 2019, this stranger’s past caught up with Henry instead and landed her in Essex County jail in Newark. Henry set out to sue the US marshals involved, but can’t, as the Fourth Amendment granted them qualified immunity, a legal protection that shields law enforcement officers from liability.” (09/02/24)