David Sosa was mistakenly arrested twice in the same county, by the same cops, on the same warrant issued decades earlier for a completely different David Sosa in another state, with different age, height, weight, and distinguishing tattoos.
A pernicious case of mistaken identity goes to the Supreme Court
https://www.wired.com/story/data-warrants-policing-scotus/
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DougHolland@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
The notion that cops are arresting people for having the same name as someone in the database — not checking date-of-birth or anything else — is just nuts. And completely ordinary names, too. The incompetence and don't-give-a-damn-itude is astounding.
Asking the current Supreme Court, though... Might as well roll dice.