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AZ: Mesa police ordered to pay $500,000 to mistaken identity (incompetence) victim
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"Aaron S. Markley was an Arizona State University honors student until Mesa police mistook his identity."
"He had to drop out of school, lost a home he and his wife had purchased, and spent $40,000 clearing his name."
"This week, Mesa police were ordered to shell out $500,000 after a Maricopa County jury found the department was negligent when it falsely accused Markley of selling drugs."
"The jury also found gross negligence against then-undercover Detective Elizabeth Horn."
"Markley, 32, of Mesa, was accused by police of selling methamphetamines to Horn in April 1998 from a trailer. The arrest was not made at the time of the drug purchase to protect the officer's identity. But when officers returned to the trailer to make the arrest, the suspect was gone."
"The mix-up came when police tried to find the suspect but misidentified Markley as the drug dealer because of a similarity in the spelling of his name." ...
"Markley was at a gun show with his mother in January 2000 when he discovered there was an outstanding warrant against him after he tried to purchase a gun. He turned himself in and was arrested and released on his own recognizance." ...
" 'He had to urinate in a bottle twice a week with frontal observation. It was very humiliating,' [attorney Larry] Debus said." ... |
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