The United States Supreme Court will listen to arguments in a legal battle on the demand of a woman against the United States government for FBI agents by mistakeing her home in Atlanta, Georgia.
Trina Martin’s house was broken down by the FBI agents before dawn on October 18, 2017. The agents broke into her room and pointed to her and her boyfriend while her 7 -year -old son shouted for her mother from another room.
Martin, 46, was blocked from Attding to his son, so he said he felt an eternity until the agents realized that they had entered the wrong house while looking for a member of a subject gang.
A Martin lawyer will be enriched on Tuesday by the Supreme Court to request the restitution of his 2019 demand against the United States government battery, assault and aggression agents, false trial and other violations.
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Toi Cliatt, on the left, and Trina Martin is outside the house that the FBI attacked by mistake in 2017, in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP)
A federal judge in Atlanta dismissed the lawsuit in 2022 and the 11th Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit confirmed that the ruling last year.
The key issue that judges will consider is, in what circumstances can the federal government be in an effort to hold the police responsible.
Martin’s lawyers said that Congress clearly gave these demands in 1974 after a couple of attacks of the law in wrong houses, since blocking the demands would leave little appeal for her and others that they experienced similar.
FBI Atlanta spokesman Tony Thomas told The Associated Press that the agency cannot comment on pending litigation.
Government lawyers argued in the case of Martin that the courts should not be decisions to apply the law “doubts.” FBI agents advanced the work and tried to locate the right house, causing this raid to be different from the raids without order and without knot that led to Congress to take legislative measures in the 1970s, said the Department of Justice. Reclaimed.
The 11th circuit was largely agreed with that argument by dismissing Martin’s case, claiming that the courts cannot secondly can the police officers make “honest mistakes” in searches. The agent who directed the raid said that the personal GPS led him to the wrong place. The objective of the FBI was located a few houses away.
Martin, her boyfriend, Toi Cliatt and her son were traumatized, she said.
“We will never be the same, mental, emotional, psychological,” he told The Associated Press on Friday at the house that was raided. “Mentally, you can suppress it, but you really can’t overcome it.”
She and Cliatt, 54, showed where they were sleeping when the agents broke out and the main bathroom closet where they hid.
Toi Cliatt talks about the raid in the bedroom where he and the bride Trina Martin were sleeping when the FBI broke into his house, in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP)
Martin stopped training the track because the initial gun reminded him of Flashbang’s Granada that the agents left on the raid. Cliatt said he had to leave his driving work in trucks because he couldn’t sleep.
“The road is hypnotizing,” he said. “I became a responsibility for my company.”
Martin Sid, his son, put himself extremely anxious, explaining that he asked him to dust threads from his clothes and peeling the painting of the walls.
Cliatt Initial believed that the raid was an attempted robbery and ran to the closet, where he maintained a shotgun. Martin Sid, his son still expresses fear that he could have been killed if he faced the agents while he was armed.
“If the Federal Cake Claims Law provides a cause of action for anything, it is an incursion into the wrong house like the FBI made here,” Martin’s lawyers wrote in a letter to the Supreme Court.
Other Courts of Appeals of the United States have interpreted the most favorable law for victims of raids in incorrect houses, creating conflicting legal standards that only the Superior Court can resolve, lawyers say.
After the agents broke the house, a member of the FBI SWAT team took Cliatt out of the closet and placed him handcuffed.
But one of the noted agents does not have the tattoos that the suspect had, as shown in the judicial documents. The agent requested the name and direction of Cliatt, and Neith coincided with those of the suspect.
Then, the room calmed down when the agents realized that they had raided the wrong house.
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The House of Atlanta where Trina Martin, her boyfriend Toi Cliatt and her 7 -year -old son lived when the FBI broke and broke, is seen on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP)
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Cliatt had no challenge, and the agents went to the right house, where they arrested the man they were looking for.
The agent who directed the raid later returned to Martin’s house to apologize and leave a presentation card with the name of a supervisor. Cliatt said the family did not receive government compensation, even for the damage to the house.
Martin said the most distressing part of the raid was that his son cried.
“When you can’t protect your child or fight to protect your child, it’s a feeling that there are not all chickens to feel,” he said.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
