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The US Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a pending case that includes an amicus brief filed by David Sosas .
David Sosa was arrested twice in Martin County , Florida , for an open warrant belonging to a different man.
He was arrested anyway, but three hours later was released after fingerprinting revealed the mismatch.
David Sosa was wrongfully arrested for a warrant that had been vacated by the courts but not updated in the database accessed by the officers he encountered.
The potential for wrongful warrants might also increase with new technology, as search warrants are issued for digital data trails and facial recognition tools are used to issue warrants based on little more than digitally rendered suspicion.
A 2018 analysis yielded at least 5.7 million outstanding warrants across 27 states.
New York City alone had around 1.6 million open warrants in the same year , and approximately 810,000 were over a decade old .
The sheer volume of open warrants creates a Kafkaesque web of suspicion over people who share common names.
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