Teen spends 35 days in jail after deputies arrest wrong Cody Williams

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-florida-wrong-teen-arrest-20140225,0,2990511.story

Teen spends 35 days in jail after deputies arrest wrong Cody Williams
By Matt Pearce
February 25, 2014, 11:47 a.m.

They arrested the wrong Cody Williams, and then kept him in jail for more than a month.

The Clay County, Fla., Sheriff's Office punished a deputy Tuesday for the wrongful arrest of 18-year-old Cody Lee Williams, who didn't even share the same middle name as a man accused of having sex with a young girl.

“Other than the name, there’s no other similarities," Kris Nowicki, Cody Lee Williams' attorney, told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. “Cody Williams had never met this girl and didn’t know anything about her."

According to the Florida Times-Union, which first reported on the story, a girl younger than 12 told investigators that she had sex with an older boy named Cody Williams on Halloween in 2012.

[Common Sense Party]

1. I hope they scrub EVERY last vestige and hint of this from his record.

This could cause problems for him for decades if it isn't wiped spotless.

[HappyMe]

2. That's true.