Is a claim for damages arising out of a conviction or sentence that has not been invalidated invalidated?
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The following excerpt is from Rouser v. Crounse, 1:19-cv-00550-NONE-GSA-PC (E.D. Cal. 2020):
invalid by a state tribunal authorized to make such determination, or called into 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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