After serving several terms of 90 days for misdemenor failure to pay child support over an 8 year peiod, I was incarcerated for 8 months for felony failure to pay child support. I had originallly lost the misdemenor case by default in 1999 by failing to appear and was refused a chance to prove my innocence by DNA. On July 4th 2007 I was arrested for Misdemenor failure to pay and got 90 days and served 65. On the day I was to be released I was informed that I had a Felony Warrant for failure to pay, where I was then forced to sit in jail, here's where it gets good. The courts claimed I owed 211,000 dollers and the Attorney general's office issued the warrant. In order for them to send me to Prison they had to prove I was biologically at fault. I sat from september to late November before they ordered the DNA test, and from late November until early April for the results to come back. April 28th 2008. I was freed from jail because I proved by DNA that I am not the father. The Felony case was "Dismissed" and all judgements in the misdemenor case were "Vacated In Their Entirety". Three months after being released from jail and the 9 year burden I'd been forced to live with I developed PTSD with severe anxiety/chronic panic attacks and agoraphobia. The first last 3 semesters of my first year in college were decimated by this disorder, and I'm left unable to work let alone leave my room or bed. Can I sue?
The attorny General's office filed appeals on both of the judgements and the court of appeals dismissed both of the appeals.
The factor that persuaded the judge to allow DNA testing was a letter I mailed the court asking for one in 1999., and that the original judge in the case was related to the plantiff.
Also I was the second person to be named a the defendant in this case. The child was born in 1994. 11 months after the last time I ever saw or spoke to the plaintiff.
I wasn't brought into the case until 1999, when I was arrested and carted off to a room where I was made to sign papers without an attorny in order to be released from jail. This was my first time ever in a jail situation and I knew no better.
The attorny General's office filed appeals on both of the judgements and the court of appeals dismissed both of the appeals.
The factor that persuaded the judge to allow DNA testing was a letter I mailed the court asking for one in 1999., and that the original judge in the case was related to the plantiff.
Also I was the second person to be named a the defendant in this case. The child was born in 1994. 11 months after the last time I ever saw or spoke to the plaintiff.
I wasn't brought into the case until 1999, when I was arrested and carted off to a room where I was made to sign papers without an attorny in order to be released from jail. This was my first time ever in a jail situation and I knew no better.