The US Supreme Court is ready to hear arguments in a legal battle against a woman government against the US government for FBI agents, raiding their home in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tina Martin’s house was broken by FBI agents on October 18, 2017 before morning. The agents hit a storm in her bedroom and gave guns on her and her then lover, while her son, 7, shouted to her mother from another room.
46 -year -old Martin was stopped from participating in his child, which he said that the agents were felt as an eternity until the agents realized that they had bust in the wrong house in search of a suspected gang member.
A lawyer for Martin will go to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, who would ask for the restoration of his 2019 case against the US government, alleging attacks on agents and batteries, false arrests and other violations.
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Toi Cliatt, Left, and Tina Martin stand outside the house, which FBI incorrectly raided in 2017, on Friday, April 25, 2025 in Atlanta. (AP)
In Atlanta, a federal judge dismissed the case in 2022 and the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision last year.
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Martin’s lawyers said that after a pair of law enforcement raids on wrong houses in 1974, the Congress clearly gave green lights to the cases, because blocking the cases would lead to very few incidents for him and others who experienced similar events.
FBI Atlanta spokesman Tony Thomas told Associated Press that the agency could not comment on pending litigation.
In the case of Martin, the government lawyers argued that the courts should not be the law enforcement decision “second projected”. The FBI agents worked in advance and attempted to locate the right house, causing the raid to separate from the No-Nock, Warrantless raid, which motivated the Congress to take legislative action in the 1970s, the Department of Justice claimed in the court filing in the court starting under the Biden administration.
While rejecting Martin’s case, the 11th circuit largely agreed to the argument, claiming that the courts could not make another estimate of the police officers who make “honest mistakes” in discoveries. The agent who led the raid said that his personal GPS gave him the wrong place. The FBI’s goal was located away from some homes.
He said that Martin, his then his lover, Toy Clite and his son were abandoned.
“We would never be the same, mental, emotional, psychologically the same,” he told The Associated Press on Friday in the house that was raided. “Mentally, you can press it, but you can’t really finish it.”
The 54 -year -old and Clite showed that while they were sleeping, the agents hid where and the master bathroom closet, where they were sleeping.
Toi CLIATT talked about the raid in the bedroom, where he and the then girlfriend Tina Martin were sleeping when FBI broke his house in Atlanta on Friday, 25 April 2025 in Atlanta. (AP)
Martin shut down the coaching track as the initial pistol reminded him of the flashbang grenade that the agents closed the raid. Clite said that he had to quit his truck-driving job as he could not sleep.
“The road is hypnotizing,” he said. “I became a responsibility for my company.”
Martin said that his son was very worried, explaining that he started pulling threads from his clothes and peeling paint from the walls.
Clite initially admitted that the raid was an attempt to a theft and ran towards the cell, where he kept a gun. Martin said that his son still expresses fear that he can be killed if he faces agents while armed.
Martin’s lawyers wrote in a brief form in the Supreme Court, “If the Federal Tort Claims Act provides the reason for action for anything, it is a wrong-house raid, as if the FBI is organized here.”
Other American appeal courts have made more favorable interpretation of the law for the victims of raids on wrong houses, creating conflicting legal standards that only the High Court can resolve, the lawyers say.
After the agents broke the door of the house, an FBI SWAT team member pulled the CLAT out of the closet and kept it in handcuffs.
But one of the agents saw that he did not have a tattoo that was suspicious, showing court documents. The agent sought the name and address of the Clay, nor did it match the suspect.
Then the room became silent because the agents realized that they had raided the wrong house.
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Atlanta’s house where Tina Martin, her then lover TO Clite and her 7 -year -old son were living when the FBI broke the door and the storm came, on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP)
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Clite was unknown, and the agents left for the right house, where they arrested the man he was searching.
The agent who led the raid later returned to Martin’s house to apologize and leave a business card with the name of the supervisor. Clat said that the family did not get any compensation from the government, not even for the loss of the House.
Martin said his son was crying the most disturbing part of the raid.
“When you are not able to protect your child or at least not able to fight to protect your child, it’s a feeling that no parents ever want to feel,” he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
