Beaven v. Roth

ORDER

Marion Beaven, who is currently incarcerated at the Miami Correctional Facility in Indiana, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his civil rights suit seeking damages for his continued confinement. Because his suit is squarely precluded under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.Ct. 2364, 129 L.Ed.2d 383 (1994), we affirm.

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BACKGROUND

In October 1994, Mr. Beaven was convicted of five counts of conspiracy to commit forgery and determined to be a habitual offender by an Indiana jury. Indiana judge Stephanie Roth sentenced him to twenty years’ imprisonment — five concurrent eight-year…