FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia state and federal attorney says a Fulton County Superior Court mistake left a man jailed for eight days after he was wrongly accused of failing to appear in court. Larry Armstrong said the ordeal began Jan. 8, when he came to the Fulton County Superior Court for a scheduled court date. After leaving the courthouse and heading back home to Memphis on Interstate 20, Armstrong said he was pulled over shortly after crossing from Georgia into Alabama, allegedly for not using his turn signal. “I wouldn’t want to put this on my worst enemy,” Armstrong said. Armstrong told Channel 2’s Eryn Rogers that, during the traffic stop, authorities were letting him off with a warning when they were notified he had an outstanding warrant for a failure to appear. “They got a call in from dispatch saying that I had an FTA, which is failure to appear,” Armstrong said. Armstrong was taken to an Alabama jail, where he remained for the next eight days. His attorney filed a motion on Jan. 9 to recall the warrant, stating it was issued in error and that Armstrong had not missed any court dates. The prosecutor agreed, according to the motion. Despite that, Armstrong’s atto
