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Phillip REED, an individual, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lee BACA, individually and in his official capacity; County of Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 11-56429.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Argued Aug. 8, 2013.
    Submitted March 19, 2014.
    Donald W. Cook, Mann & Cook, Robert Mann, Donald W. Cook, Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Scott Eric Caron, Lawrence Beach Allen & Choi, PC, Glendale, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Before: TALLMAN, CLIFTON, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
   MEMORANDUM

Deputies for the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department (LASD) arrested plaintiff Phillip Reed when his name, address, driver’s license number, vehicle plate number, and physical description matched the information shown in a misdemeanor warrant. He was booked, fingerprinted, and then jailed for less than twenty-four hours before a prosecutor determined that the warrant was actually for Reed’s brother, who had stolen Reed’s identity. Reed filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the LASD, Los An-geles County, and Sheriff Lee Baca, in which he alleged that they violated his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants. We review a grant of summary judgment de novo, Fed. Trade Comm’n v. Stefanchik, 559 F.3d 924, 927 (9th Cir.2009), and we affirm.

Reed argues that the defendants violated the Fourth Amendment when they arrested him. There is no question, even when viewing the facts in the light most favorable to Reed, that the police had probable cause to arrest the true subject of the warrant, and “the arresting officers had a good faith, reasonable belief that the arrestee was the subject of the warrant.” Rivera v. Cnty. of Los Angeles, No. 11-57037, 745 F.3d 384, 389, 2014 WL 957388, at *3 (9th Cir. Mar. 12, 2014). The Fourth Amendment required no more.

Nor did Reed suffer a violation of his Fourteenth Amendment rights. Like the Supreme Court in Baker v. McCollan, we are “quite certain” that Reed has not proven that a Fourteenth Amendment violation arose out of his twenty-four-hour confinement. 443 U.S. 137, 145, 99 S.Ct. 2689, 61 L.Ed.2d 433 (1979). Reed has not presented any evidence that would allow a reasonable juror to believe that any LASD employee confined him with the knowledge that he was not the true subject of the warrant. See Rivera, 745 F.3d at 392, 2014 WL 957388, at *5. Nor did the warrant information itself indicate that further investigation into Reed’s identity was required. Id. Even assuming Reed’s mentions of mistaken identity constitute “repeated protests of innocence,” the Due Process Clause was not violated since Reed’s case was dismissed the next day on the prosecutor’s motion. Id. at 39B, 2014 WL 957388, *6 (quotation omitted).

The district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.