Legal Opinion
Santiago Rivera v. County of Los Angeles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 12, 2014No. 11-57037PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must deal with a case of mistaken identity arising out of the arrest and detention of a person named on a warrant not intended to describe him.
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In July 1985, a Los Angeles Superior Court issued an arrest warrant for “Santiago Rivera.” On June 18, 1989, officers of the Montclair Police Department arrested Santiago Rivera, the plaintiff in this case, on the 1985 warrant. Fingerprint analysis revealed, however, that the Santiago Rivera who was arrested (“Rivera” or “the plaintiff’) was not the Santiago Rivera sought by the'warrant (“the subject of the *387warrant…
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