Opinion ID: 145538
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Heading: Arrest Based on Warrant

Text: Foley next challenges the validity of the Florida warrant as a basis for his arrest, arguing that no warrant ever existed and that the computer print-out produced as evidence of the warrant was generated as part of a cover-up to justify Foley's illegal detention. As we have already discussed, Foley's initial detention was justified by reasonable suspicion separate and apart from the results of the warrant check. As for the validity of the warrant itself, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 23A, provides that a printout of the electronic warrant from the criminal justice information system [`CJIS'] shall constitute a true copy of the warrant. Thus, the CJIS record of the Florida warrant was statutorily sufficient for the troopers to make an arrest. Moreover, it was reasonable for the troopers to believe that Foley was the individual named in the warrant, as both his name and birthdate matched, and the Social Security number from his BOP record matched the Social Security number listed in the warrant. As the warrant was valid on its face and matched the identifying information which Foley had provided, Kiely and Collins had probable cause to effectuate the arrest and did not deprive Foley of any constitutional rights in so doing. See Baker v. McCollan, 443 U.S. 137, 99 S.Ct. 2689, 61 L.Ed.2d 433 (1979); Brady v. Dill, 187 F.3d 104 (1st Cir.1999).