Anthony A. Brown v. Officer L. Patterson

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• holding an officer was reasonable to arrest § 1983 plaintiff with the same name and race, but otherwise different identifying information, as was listed on the warrant
• arresting officer was not responsible for plaintiffs detention after turning plaintiff over to jailers at the police station
• upholding dismissal where plaintiffs complaint contained “no suggestion that the city ... has a custom or policy” of not making an effort to rule out mistaken identity of arrestees who protest their innocence on that basis
• finding the police officer did not act unreasonably when he mistakenly arrested someone whose name matched the suspect’s alias and who had a similar birthday, was of the same race and sex, and lived in a similar geographic area
• although the 24-hour detention was insufficient, a prolonged mistaken confinement, under certain circumstances, \would be a deprivation of liberty without due process of law and [would] thus violate the Fourteenth Amendment\
• plaintiff who was mistakenly arrested pursuant to a valid warrant and held in custody for forty-eight hours stated no claim for unlawful postarrest detention where his jailers made no attempt to determine whether he was actually the person named in the warrant

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