Castleberry’s crime and despite his continual denial of being Mr. Spriestersbach was in an agitated state when he was being wrongfully incarcerated for Mr. staff and doctors and heavily medicated,” the petition said. Castleberry, the more he was declared delusional and psychotic by the H.S.H. Spriestersbach vocalized his innocence by asserting that he is not Mr. The petition also describes what happened to Spriestersbach after he was finally committed to the Hawaii State Hospital: The petition blames the public defender’s office, the police, the hospital and Hawaii’s attorney general for their alleged roles in the “gross miscarriage of justice” that resulted in Spriestersbach’s arrest and misidentification. The office of the public defender did not immediately return Nexstar’s request for comment. In a petition asking the judge to set the record straight, the Hawaii Innocence Project says no one believed Spriestersbach, not even his public defenders. The Innocence Project says Spriestersbach never said he was Castleberry, whom he had never met, and it’s unclear how the mix-up happened. 2, 2021, Spriestersbach was wrongfully arrested for someone else’s crime and then committed to a state hospital for more than two years because officials mixed him up with someone else.

The Hawaii Innocence Project says, Monday, Aug. In this photo provided by Vedanta Griffith, Joshua Spriestersbach talks on a phone in March 2020, in Danby, Vt.

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