On June 4, 2014, plaintiff Jesse Sanchez, 35, was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car, waiting for a friend in central Stockton, when he was approached by Stockton police officers and told that they had a warrant for his arrest. The officers transported him to the San Joaquin County Jail. He was later driven by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office to the Los Angeles Central Jail on June 6, 2014, and he remained there until June 10, 2014, when he was cleared. Sanchez sued police officers Benjamin Ratzlaff and Apolonio Garcia Rangel and the officers’ employer, the city of Stockton. Sanchez alleged that the defendants were negligent in his false arrest and imprisonment in violation of his constitutional rights. Sanchez claimed that he told the officers that they had mistaken him for another Jesse Sanchez, who also had the same date of birth, but that the officers arrested him anyway. Plaintiff’s counsel contended that the officers ran Sanchez’s name through the California warrant check system and found that the warrant was for someone with a different description, as the warrant was for a person who was 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 260 pounds, while Sanchez was 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 160 pounds. Counsel also contended that Sanchez had the same date of birth as the person named in the warrant, but that Sanchez never lived in Los Angeles, where the offense took place. Counsel further contended that the officers still took Sanchez to jail even after seeing Stockton police records, as well as an abstract at the jail, showing that Sanchez had lived in Stockton since he was a teen and had previously been arrested for an offense in Stockton, which was resolved, while the person named in the warrant had never been arrested and lived in Los Angeles. Plaintiff’s counsel argued that at the police station, on their way to the jail, Ratzlaff and Rangel could have used CAL-photo, which provides law enforcement with California driver’s license pictures, and seen that Sanchez was not the person named in the warrant, but that the officers failed to do so. Plaintiff’s counsel also noted that the captain of the police department testified that the officers had the ability to compare the photos. Counsel also noted that the officers testified that they arrested Sanchez based on the warrant hit alone even though the State of California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training states that officers cannot arrest someone on a warrant hit alone, as many people have the same name and birthdates, and that further investigation must be done if the name and birthdate match. Sanchez’s police-procedures expert opined that Ratzlaff and Rangel ignored their training. Defense counsel contended that Ratzlaff and Rangel were waived down by a citizen allegedly complaining that Sanchez had been parked in front of a home for more than two hours. Counsel maintained that, upon a consensual check, the officers learned that a domestic violence arrest warrant was issued for an individual allegedly matching Sanchez’s description and that upon further investigation, when the officers asked Sanchez if he had a domestic violence warrant, Sanchez responded that he thought he had taken care of it. Defense counsel argued that Sanchez’s extensive criminal history included domestic violence arrests with some resulting in warrants, and that, as a result, Ratzlaff and Rangel believed the correct individual was being taken in on the domestic violence warrant., Sanchez claimed that while he was in custody, he feared gang violence at the Los Angeles jail. He also claimed that although he was ultimately cleared, he was transported without his clothing so that when he was released, he was left on the street wearing a white, paper jail jumpsuit. Sanchez sought recovery of damages for his emotional pain and suffering.