Illas v. Przybyla

FLAHERTY, Justice.

OPINION

Human experience usually finds the spinner of deceit ensnared in his own web. Here, however, the duplicity of Elvis Ramos resulted in the arrest and detention of an innocent person, the plaintiff, David Illas, Jr. 1

The following facts are undisputed. David Illas, Jr. (Illas) and Elvis Ramos are cousins. On the morning of December 9, 1991, Ramos was operating a motor vehicle whose loud muffler resonated in the ears of a Scituate police officer. Intending to deal with this offense, the officer pulled him over and asked for identification. Ramos’s license to drive,…