Elderly New Jersey Woman Cavity Searched While Jailed for Two Weeks In Wrongful Arrest Can’t Sue U.S. Marshals Who Made a ‘Reasonable Mistake’ for Their Role In Debacle, Court Rules
A Black woman who was mistakenly arrested at gunpoint, handcuffed, frisked, cavity searched, and forced to spend two weeks incarcerated in New Jersey and Pennsylvania was barred from suing six U.S. Marshals who detained her, a federal appeals court ruled last week. Judith Maureen Henry, now 74, was arrested at her Newark home at 7…