Man Mistaken For Another Placed In Mental Institution Sues Hawaii For Putting Him There
Joshua Spriestersbach’s attorneys filed the lawsuit at the U.S. District Court in Honolulu Sunday. According to an Associated Press report, the lawsuit said that Hawaii officials haven’t responded to a petition filed in August to correct the error that got him institutionalized. Spriestersbach’s identity mix-up began in 2017 when he was waiting in a long line for food at a Honolulu homeless shelter and fell asleep on the sidewalk....