Berndt Petersen’s report for WSB-TV starts where a lot of lawsuits begin: with a thick stack of paperwork and a simple claim that something went badly off the rails.
Standing in Acworth, Petersen explains that Mahendra Patel’s attorneys have now filed a federal lawsuit aimed at both prosecutors and police, arguing that Patel was wrongly accused, wrongly jailed, and wrongly treated like a predator in a case where, they say, the truth was sitting in plain view on video.
Patel, who Petersen notes spent 47 days behind bars, doesn’t describe the ordeal with legal jargon or careful phrasing…