The long, and incorrect, arm of the law in Brookline gets Philadelphia man locked up on the Vineyard

A typo led to the arrest of Archibald Buttle instead of the heating engineer and terrorist Archibald Tuttle.

But it won't happen. Case law is that law enforcement, courts, and state agencies are pretty much infallible as long as they were acting in good faith. You'd have to prove that someone intentionally charged the person with the wrong crime.

And while I absolutely believe him that two days in jail was horrible, people really should read up on all the people who spend years incarcerated, or have their kids taken permanently, or have their funds and homes seized and not returned over things that are eventually deemed to have not in fact happened. They sometimes receive very minor settlements, but usually they get nothing.

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