{"id":2428604,"date":"2025-04-29T06:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-decide-if-fbi-can-be-sued-for-raiding-wrong-house\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T06:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T10:38:44","slug":"supreme-court-to-decide-if-fbi-can-be-sued-for-raiding-wrong-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-to-decide-if-fbi-can-be-sued-for-raiding-wrong-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court to decide if FBI can be sued for raiding wrong house"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-to-decide-if-fbi-can-be-sued-for-raiding-wrong-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2428604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Supreme Court is set to hear a case concerning whether the FBI can be held liable for mistakenly raiding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-hires-cartoon-network-host-unapologetic-content-thief-who-regurgitates-witless-conservative-bashing\/\" title=\"CNN+ Hires Cartoon Network Host, \u2018Unapologetic Content Thief\u2019 Who Regurgitates \u2018Witless Conservative-Bashing\u2019\">wrong house<\/a> in Atlanta in 2017. The incident involved Trina Martin, who filed a lawsuit after FBI agents forcibly entered her home while her 7-year-old son was present. During the raid, agents broke down the door, used a flashbang grenade, and held Martin and her partner at gunpoint, causing important trauma and emotional distress. After realizing their mistake, the agents left and proceeded to the correct location nearby. Despite apologies from the FBI and offers to document the damages, the family claims that their requests for reparations for trauma and lost wages were denied.<\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s lawsuit, which accuses the government of assault, battery, and false arrest, was dismissed in lower courts, which cited that law enforcement officers making &#8220;honest mistakes&#8221; are typically protected from lawsuits. The case will examine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act allows for lawsuits against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-president-trump-spring-a-trap-on-treasonous-democrats-on-election-night\/\" title=\"Did President Trump Spring a Trap on Trea...ous Democrats on Election Night?\">federal agents<\/a> for such errors. Martin&#8217;s attorneys argue that failing to provide a recourse leaves innocent families vulnerable, while the Justice Department defends the agents&#8217; actions as reasonable given the circumstances.The outcome of this case could establish crucial legal precedents regarding the accountability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congress must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">federal law enforcement<\/a> in similar situations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Supreme Court to decide if FBI can be sued for raiding wrong house<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video\">\n<div id=\"Brid_24824\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Supreme Court<\/a> will hear arguments Tuesday in a case testing whether the federal government can be held liable after FBI agents mistakenly raided the wrong house in Atlanta in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Trina Martin, 46, filed a lawsuit after <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> agents broke down her door before dawn and stormed her bedroom with guns drawn while her 7-year-old son screamed from another room.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3393928\/maine-laurel-libby-supreme-court-action-censorship-transgender-athlete\/\">Maine lawmaker urges Supreme Court action after being censured over transgender dispute<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3392035\/oklahoma-attorney-general-gentner-drummond-breaks-gop-ranks-catholic-charter-school-fight\/\">Oklahoma attorney general breaks GOP ranks in Catholic charter school legal fight<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3392242\/supreme-court-late-arriving-ballots\/\">Supreme Court could soon weigh legality of late-arriving ballots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trina Martin, left, and Toi Cliatt sit for a portrait inside the home the FBI mistakenly raided in 2017, in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo\/Sudhin Thanawala)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll never be the same, mentally, emotionally, psychologically,&rdquo; she told the <em>Associated Press<\/em> during a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/georgia-fbi-raid-supreme-court-lawsuit-9cb55aa6f45bbf02c29d84363c7c9e6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"recent interview\">recent interview<\/a> at the home that was raided. &ldquo;Mentally, you can suppress it, but you can&rsquo;t really get over it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents smashed the front door, detonated a flashbang grenade, and held plaintiffs Martin and her partner, Hilliard Cliatt, at gunpoint. Martin&rsquo;s 7-year-old son was also present and hid under his bed during the raid. Cliatt, who was handcuffed and dragged from a closet where he kept a shotgun for protection, was released once the mistake was realized.<\/p>\n<p>Within minutes, the agents left and proceeded to the correct house, where a suspected gang member was located just a few houses away. FBI agent Lawrence Guerra later returned to apologize, document the damages, and provide contact information for further follow-up. Despite these gestures, the family claimed the FBI refused to cover the costs of damages and the trauma caused by the raid, which included lost wages and therapy expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Martin&rsquo;s lawsuit, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3302349\/supreme-court-review-wrong-house-fbi-raid-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"accuses the government of assault, battery, and false arrest\">accuses the government of assault, battery, and false arrest<\/a>, was dismissed by a federal judge in Atlanta and upheld by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-temporarily-pauses-order-restricting-biden-administrations-social-media-contacts\/\" title=\"Justice Alito halts order limiting Biden administration&#039;s social media interactions temporarily.\">lower courts found<\/a> that officers who make &ldquo;honest mistakes&rdquo; during searches are shielded from lawsuits under existing law.<\/p>\n<p>At issue before the high court is whether Congress, through the 1974 Federal Tort Claims Act amendments, intended to allow lawsuits against federal law enforcement for wrong-house raids. Martin&rsquo;s lawyers argue that blocking such claims leaves innocent families such as hers without recourse.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If the Federal Tort Claims Act provides a cause of action for anything, it&rsquo;s a wrong-house raid like the one the FBI conducted here,&rdquo; Martin&rsquo;s attorneys wrote in a brief.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department contends that courts should not second-guess agents&rsquo; split-second decisions, arguing that the FBI made efforts to locate the correct house and acted under a valid warrant.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Toi Cliatt talks about the raid in the bedroom where he and then-girlfriend Trina Martin were sleeping when the FBI broke into their home, in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo\/Sudhin Thanawala)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3302349\/supreme-court-review-wrong-house-fbi-raid-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW WRONG-HOUSE FBI RAID LAWSUIT\">SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW WRONG-HOUSE FBI RAID LAWSUIT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martin and her then-boyfriend, Cliatt, say they continue to suffer trauma from the incident. Martin&rsquo;s son, now a teenager, reportedly struggles with anxiety linked to that morning.<\/p>\n<p>A decision in the case could clarify the extent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">legal protections federal law enforcement officers enjoy<\/a> when a mistake is made during searches and raids.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_24824\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"playlist\":\"24824\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court to rule on FBI liability for wrong house raid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2633,"featured_media":2428605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AP25115787543801.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50645,4585,32546,54262,32275],"class_list":["post-2428604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fbi-2","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal-decision","tag-raiding","tag-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AP25115787543801.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428608,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428604\/revisions\/2428608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}