Grieving mom 'heartbroken' after her husband's suspected killer released from jail on 'typographical error'

A grieving mother was left 'heartbroken' after her husband's suspected killer was released from jail due to a 'typographical error.'

Amarion Sanders, 22, was being held on a $1million bond at Ohio's Cuyahoga County jail prior to his August trial for the September 2023 murder of Derek Driskill, 39.

But he was set free Monday night after his case was 'inadvertently dismissed' in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas documents - prompting multiple law enforcement agencies to scour the city of Cleveland and bring him back behind bars, Fox 8 reports.

'Unfortunately due to the court's typographical error, the defendant was released from the county jail where he had been held because he failed to make bond,' a judge wrote in court documents.

Court officials later explained that another case with a similar case number should have been dismissed instead.

'In this instance, criminal cases with consecutive numbers... were randomly assigned to the same judge at arraignment, which is rare with 34 judges on the bench,' the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas said in a statement to Fox 8, noting 'we deeply regret the error.'

'Had the cases been on different dockets, the system would have flagged the error when it was entered.'

Jail officials said they also did not realize there was any issue with the release order.

'Cases are dismissed all the time, defendants are released everyday. There was no reason to question it,' Associate Warden Kevin O'Donnell told Cleveland 19. 

Instead, prosecutors did not notice the error until Tuesday morning - and immediately alerted court officials.

But Andrea Johnson, Driskill's wife, said she does not understand how the court could have made such a mistake.

'I honestly don't understand how that happens,' she told Fox 8. 'I understand humans make mistakes, but you would think there's more than one person that something like this goes through.'

She added that she doesn't think it was 'fair' that her husband's alleged murderer was set free.

'That's not justice, it's not our family feeling safe,' Johnson said. 'I mean he's out on the street and can do it to somebody else.'

Police have said Driskill was killed in an argument following a fender bender in the parking lot of a carryout restaurant on September 23, 2023.

A car slammed into the back of his Mercedes Benz, and even though the driver was cooperative, a passenger inside the vehicle started arguing with Driskill and shot him in the head before fleeing, Fox 8 reports.

'Obviously I was heartbroken, but I thought he would be OK, but he died two days later,' Johnson recounted.

Sanders later turned himself in, and was indicted on charges of aggravated murder, two counts of murder and two counts of felonious assault, according to WKYC. 

Sanders was brought back into custody on Wednesday, after US Marshals arrested him in a morning traffic stop, the News-Herald reports.

He will now be transported to the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center for booking and housing.

'He is no longer a threat and was never a threat to society,' Interim Chief of Corrections Nestor Rivera told Cleveland 19. 

But both court and jail officials say they will now work to make sure nothing like this happens again.

The Cuyahoga County Court will review its procedures and work with the Sheriff's Department, while Associate Warden O'Donnell said jail officials 'are going to work collectively to try and - I don't want to say correct- but scrutinize the process and make sure this never happens again.'