The Supreme Court heard the debate after the FBI raided its Atlanta home: “We will never be the same”

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a legal battle over women’s lawsuit against FBI agents in a legal battle, mistakenly raiding their homes in Atlanta, Georgia.

Trina Martin's home was broken down by FBI agents before dawn on October 18, 2017. Agents rushed into her bedroom and pointed the gun at her and her then-boyfriend, while her 7-year-old son screamed for her mother from another room.

Martin, 46, was stopped for what she called eternity until agents realized they were looking for suspicious gang members that they had crashed into the wrong house.

Martin's lawyers will file Tuesday with the Supreme Court to resume its 2019 lawsuit against the U.S. government, alleging assault and assault, false arrests and other violations.

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Toi Cliatt, left, and Trina Martin stand outside the FBI's house that was wrongly attacked in Atlanta on Friday, April 25, 2017. (AP)

A federal judge in Atlanta dismissed the lawsuit in 2022, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld last year's ruling.

The key question that the justices will consider is under what circumstances can the federal government be sued to keep law enforcement accountable.

Martin's lawyers said Congress gave the green light to the lawsuits in 1974 after two law enforcement raids on the wrong house in 1974, as the blocking of the lawsuits had little appeal to her and others who had encountered similar incidents.

Tony Thomas, a spokesman for the FBI Atlanta, told the Associated Press that the agency was unable to comment on the pending lawsuit.

Government lawyers argued in Martin that the court should not “suspect for a second time” to the law enforcement ruling. FBI agents did work ahead of time and tried to locate the right house, which made the raid different from the ignorant unguaranteed raid, prompting Congress to take legislative action in the 1970s, the Justice Department claimed in court documents of the Biden administration.

The 11th Circuit largely agreed with the argument when it dismissed the Martin case, claiming that the court could not make a “honest mistake” in the search police for a second guess. The agent who led the raid said his personal GP led him to the wrong place. The FBI targets are located outside several houses.

She said Martin, then-boyfriend, Toi Cliatt and her son were traumatized.

“We're never going to be mentally, emotionally, psychologically the same,” she told the Associated Press in the attacked house Friday. “Psychologically, you can suppress it, but you can't really overcome it.”

She and Cliatt, 54, showcase where they sleep when agents break in, and where they hide in the master bathroom closet.

Toi Cliatt talks about the raid he and then-girlfriend Trina Martin in the bedroom when the FBI broke into their home on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP)

Martin stopped the coaching track because the starting pistol reminded her of the agent flash in the attack. Cliart said he had to leave the truck driving job because he couldn't fall asleep.

“This road is hypnotizing,” he said. “I become the responsibility of the company.”

Martin said her son became very anxious, explaining that he began pulling threads from his clothes and peeling paint from the walls.

Cliatt initially believed the raid was a burglary attempt and drove to the closet where he kept a shotgun. Martin said her son still expressed concern that she might be killed if she faced agents while armed.

“If the Federal Tort Claims Act provides a cause of action for anything, it is a false attack, as the FBI does here,” Martin's lawyer wrote in a brief introduction to the Supreme Court.

Lawyers say other U.S. courts of appeals have interpreted the law more favorably to victims of wrong house attacks, thus forming a contradictory legal standard that can only be resolved by the Supreme Court.

After the agent broke the door to the house, FBI SWAT members dragged Cliart out of the closet and put him in handcuffs.

Court documents show one of the agents noticed that he did not have a tattoo of the suspect. The agent asked Criat's name and address, and did not match the suspect's name.

The room then quieted down when the agents realized they had raided the wrong house.

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Trina Martin, then-boyfriend Toi Cliatt and her 7-year-old son were there when she saw the FBI fall and rush into the door on Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP)

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Cliatt is not arranged, agents leave the right house, and they arrest the person they are looking for.

The agent who led the raid later returned to Martin's home to apologize and left a business card in the name of the supervisor. Cliart said the family received no compensation from the government, and even did not cause damage to the House.

Martin said the most painful part of the raid was her son crying.

“When you can’t protect your child or at least fight to protect it, that’s what parents don’t want to feel,” she said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.