Supreme Court considers lawsuit arising from 'wrong house' FBI raid

WASHINGTON — When Toi Cliatt heard a loud bang in his Atlanta home in the early hours of Oct.

WASHINGTON — When Toi Cliatt heard a loud bang in his Atlanta home in the early hours of Oct. 18, 2017, his first instinct was to grab the shotgun he kept stored in a closet to defend himself from intruders.

Luckily for him, he hesitated.

"And I'm thinking about, you know, what's going to happen if it's law enforcement? We're dead, you know? And they're going to make us as the aggressor," Cliatt said in an interview.

His instinct was correct. It turned out that the people entering the house were FBI agents with flash-bang grenades and guns drawn.

The problem was they had raided the wrong house. Cliatt, his then-girlfriend Trina Martin and her 7-year-old son Gabe Watson were entirely innocent victims. And a case stemming from the incident is still winding its way through the justice system nearly eight years later, with the Supreme Court hearing oral arguments on Tuesday.