Is a claim for damages arising out of a writ of habeas corpus valid?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Simpson v. Ahlin, Case No. 1:16-cv-00373-SKO (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2017):
question by a federal court's issuance of a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. 2254." Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 487-88 (1994). "A claim for damages bearing that relationship to a conviction or sentence that has not been so invalidated is not cognizable under 1983." Id. at 488.
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