McCann, Patrick J. v. Neilsen, Ken

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

Patrick McCann brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that McHenry County Sheriffs Deputy Ken Neilsen used excessive force in the course of arresting him. The district court granted Deputy Neilsen’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, holding that under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477,114 S.Ct. 2364, 129 L.Ed.2d 383 (1994), certain allegations in the complaint were inconsistent with, and thus an impermissible collateral challenge to, McCann’s criminal convictions stemming from the same confrontation. McCann appeals, and for the following reasons…