U.S. Pays $2 Mil to Settle Oregon Terror Arrest Suit

[ProSense]

U.S. Pays $2 Mil to Settle Oregon Terror Arrest Suit

By Justin Rood - November 29, 2006, 3:21 PM

Remember Brandon Mayfield? He's the guy the FBI arrested in 2004 and held for two weeks for allegedly aiding a terrorist bombings of Spanish commuter trains. Except, he didn't do it.

Mayfield just won a $2 million settlement from the U.S. government for its rather egregious error, along with a written apology for its mistakes.

Based on a faulty fingerprint match, the FBI arrested Mayfield, raided his house and office, and held him for two weeks. They finally admitted their error and released him.

The kicker to the story: a March 2006 report from the Justice Department's Inspector General examined the Mayfield case and the Patriot Act, and concluded that for the most part, the new law had no impact on the way the FBI investigated the case. But, the report found, the Patriot Act did allow the FBI to share information about the innocent Mayfield more broadly within the intelligence community.

[thingfisher]

1. Based on a faulty fingerprint match,

Prepare for a lot more of these kinds of incidents as well as calls for more "exact" methods of identification to be implemented (to prevent such mistakes in the future of course).
Chip implants anyone?

[uppityperson]

2. thank you, I amglad to hear this.

[ThomCat]

3. We'll see if that $2 million gets whittled down.

[kestrel91316]

5. It's a SETTLEMENT. The Feds have agreed to it, to avoid

the risk of having to pay MUCH more when he wins this slam-dunk case in court. There is no negotiating once they sign off on the deal. They write the check. Period.

[kestrel91316]

4. He got the Feds to APOLOGIZE??? In WRITING?????

:woohoo: :applause: :wow: