Legal Opinion
Roy Heck v. James Humphrey, Dearborn County Prosecutor, Robert Ewbank, Attorney, and Michael Krinoph, Indiana State Police Investigator
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 1, 1993No. 89-1323PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This pro se prisoner civil rights suit charges that the defendants engineered the plaintiffs conviction for murder by, among other wrongful conduct, the destruction of exculpatory evidence. Compensatory and punitive damages were sought. The plaintiff made no effort to exhaust his state remedies against wrongful conviction, however, and this was, as the district court ruled in dismissing the suit, a fatal omission. If, regardless of the relief sought, the plaintiff is challenging the legality of his conviction, so that if he won his case the state would be obliged to…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Joseph F. Cada v. Baxter Healthcare CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1991
- Hardin v. StraubSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Burton SlotkyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
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3Cited by67 opinions
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- Elizabeth J. Arnold Lake Justin Wilson Lake, Husband and Wife v. Frederick S. Arnold Audrey L. Arnold, Husband and Wife Daniel M. Friday M.D. Tyrone Hospital Ralph W. Crawford M.DCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2000
- John Boyd v. Neal B. Biggers, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
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