False Imprisonment?

My Friend was just told his case was ';Dismissed'; he has been in prison for 8 month for charges against him. He was charged with drug trafficing and intent to distribute in New Mexico. We are from Texas. Well he was jailed there in Lea County for 8 months through investigations and other things. First he had only been to New Mexico about 2 times and only for work. He told them that, he didnt even meet the description the cop had of the suspect. He also took a polygraph and it said he was telling the truth of not being that person. He also went throught all these other things for the state and he knew and we all knew it wasnt him. Well last week they dismissed the case and are sending him home becuase the state failed to release information they had on the suspect that he had been hospitalized for gun shot wounds and a stabbing. Well when they examed my friend he had never been shot or even have the same scarring and the suspect had. Does he have a case for false imprisonment?False Imprisonment?
Yes. Find a qualified, competent attorney to sue these authorities who jailed him. Try to collect as much documentation (court records, police reports or even personal accounts) as quietly as possible before proceeding with a lawsuit since, when you file the suit, documents you may need may just disappear at the hands of those responsible. Good luck to you.False Imprisonment?
you cant really do anything about it.... thats the problem with our govt... they just want some one to blaim and they dont care who it is or if they even did it as long as they can prove otherwise... I think there should be some sort of compensation for false imprisonment though.... its just wrong that all you get is an appology.......
if your friend has a very good attorney he could possibly have a case but in all reality he should just appreciate being out cause what is he going to get out of it?
No, this happens. Polygraphs aren't even accepted as evidence in courtrooms.
if they found the drugs, they were within law enforcement rights.
If he had nothing to do with drugs, then yes.





You need an attorney and probably have a case.





He would be able to get between $50-$1,500 per day + lost wages.





Only 21 states have compensation laws on the books, which spell out exactly how much you get for a wrongful conviction. Louisiana, for example, ponies up $15,000 for each year of incarceration, plus job training and help with college tuition. Alabama pays at least $50,000 a year, and California pays $100 per day. Meanwhile, the federal government forks over $50,000 for each year of incarceration for federal crimes, plus $50,000 for each year spent on death row.





In Connecticut, which is among the 29 states without compensation statutes, ex-prisoners must lobby the legislature to pass a private bill that grants compensation to a specific person. Here, the dollar amount loosely depends on what payments the state has made in the past. The number should account for the victim’s lost time, lost wages, and physical and mental suffering, as well as the effects on his or her family. Private bills are behind some of the multimillion-dollar rewards that make the headlines, but the payouts don’t always go off without a hitch. Florida, for instance, initially planned to award $1.25 million to Alan Crotzer for serving more than 24 years after being convicted of armed robbery and rape, but ultimately dropped the payment from its budget, instead giving $4.8 million to the parents of a teen who had died in juvie boot camp. (You can keep tabs on awards by reading Justice: Denied, “the magazine for the wrongly convicted.”)