FBI Raids Wrong House, Dodges Accountability. Family Waits for Justice

Atlanta mom Curtrina Martin bolted awake before dawn on October 18, 2017. Armed intruders had busted open the front door of her house, which she shared with her seven-year-old son as well as her then-boyfriend Hilliard “Toi” Cliatt. Martin heard the sound of a flash-bang grenade exploding, mixed with pounding and shouting.

“I thought it was in my dream, so I was asleep,” Martin says. “And then it just became too clear, and I thought somebody was breaking in some cars outside. But then I was like, ‘No, this is my house.’”

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Patrick Jaicomo is an attorney with the Institute for Justice.

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Dylan Moore is a litigation fellow in the Institute for Justice’s Virgina office.

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Atlanta mom Curtrina Martin bolted awake before dawn on October 18, 2017. Armed intruders had busted open the front door of her house, which she shared with her seven-year-old son as well as her then-boyfriend Hilliard “Toi” Cliatt. Martin heard the sound of a flash-bang grenade exploding, mixed with pounding and shouting.

“I thought it was in my dream, so I was asleep,” Martin says. “And then it just became too clear, and I thought somebody was breaking in some cars outside. But then I was like, ‘No, this is my house.’”