A short errand for a law firm our client worked for turned into a living nightmare when he was wrongfully accused of causing a fatal wreck.
Justin was a college student working for a law firm when he left a local bank in Augusta, Georgia, seven minutes before a motorcycle crashed in front of that bank. Somehow, Justin ended up arrested and charged with vehicular homicide.
Why? Justin drove a black Volkswagen SUV. Witnesses reported seeing a black Mercedes SUV in the area. For that reason, Justin got called back to the accident scene, and he returned.
After he returned, Justin was arrested despite witnesses describing a different vehicle, despite video evidence showing Justin’s SUV traveling in the opposite direction minutes before the crash, and despite the absence of any physical evidence showing that any vehicle struck the motorcycle at all.
But it gets worse.
About thirty minutes after Justin was booked into jail, a bank security director provided officers with surveillance photos showing that a different SUV, not Justin’s, was near the motorcycle when it lost control. The footage also confirmed Justin had already gone the other way and was nowhere near the crash.
That evidence was circulated internally. Everyone knew. And yet, no one acted. The arresting officers, who arrested Justin without a warrant, let Justin remain in jail until around noon the next day.
Whether it’s insurance companies, large corporations, or government officials who have abused their power and are taking advantage of people, I love fighting for clients like Justin.
I look forward to standing up for Justin and making these officers answer for their constitutional violations.
This case is about more than a wrongful arrest. It’s about what happens when power is abused, and what happens when officials refuse to correct their mistake even after the truth is staring them in the face.
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