Legal Opinion
William T. Hamlin v. E. C. Warren, Sheriff, Halifax County
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 3, 1981No. 79-6769PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*30HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:
The question is whether a state prisoner may challenge the validity of his conviction in a district court without having exhausted available state remedies upon the expedient of confining himself to a § 1983 claim for monetary damages, a declaratory judgment, and prospective injunctive relief, with a seemingly deliberate omission of a request for immediate release from his imprisonment. The question is a difficult one, never addressed by the Supreme Court, though the Supreme Court has decided a closely related question involving a § 1983 damage claim growing…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Thomas A. Guerro v. Roger F. Mulhearn, Ralph F. Andrews v. Kathy Decote YoungCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1974
- John Fulford v. Frank Klein, Etc., Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- John Fulford v. Frank Klein, Etc., Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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3Cited by88 opinions
- Hawkins v. FreemanCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1999
- James Harvey v. Robert F. Horan, Jr., Commonwealth's Attorney, County of Fairfax, Jennifer Thompson Karen R. Pomer Jeri Elster, Amici CuriaeCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2002
- United States v. Robert William Jones, United States of America v. Donald Eugene JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1990
- Michael Thomas Harper v. Donald Jeffries, and Pennsylvania Board of Probation and ParoleCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1986
- Leonard v. HammondCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1986
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