Sheriff Eslinger wins $75,000 wrongful imprisonment appeal
An appeals court has thrown out a $75,000 judgment against theSeminole County Sheriff's Office, ruling that although it locked up the wrong person - a woman who was the victim of identity theft - it doesn't owe her damages because it had no duty to straighten out the mess.
Kimberly Shields Hesketh, 34, a Winter Park manicurist, was arrested April 24, 2002, on a warrant intended for another woman, a car thief wanted in Charlotte County who had stolen her identity.
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When Shields was jailed, she repeatedly told Seminole County jail personnel they had the wrong person. She contends that they checked out her claim, realized their mistake before long but kept her locked up overnight anyway.
She was freed the next day by a judge at a hearing commonly called "first appearance", after he agreed that she was not the woman wanted by Charlotte County authorities.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-06-11/news/os-sheriff-wins-false-arrest-appeal-20120611_1_wrong-person-crystal-eiffert-wrongful-imprisonment
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