POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Alexander Patton brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the Sheriff of Cook County and three policemen (two of them unknown to Patton), alleging that he had been arrested and jailed in violation of his right under the Fourteenth Amendment to due process of law. The district judge, on the authority of Baker v. McCollan,
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