Legal Opinion
Jackie Rimmer v. The Fayetteville Police Dept.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 20, 1977No. 75-1913PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:
Rimmer filed an action under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 seeking damages and injunctive relief for an alleged denial of constitutional rights during the course of a trial on criminal charges in a state court. At the time of filing he had not completed exhaustion of his state court remedies, but he did complete exhaustion of those remedies after the district court dismissed this complaint. The state court judgment of conviction, however, still stands unreversed and unvacated. We conclude that the doctrine of collateral estoppel 1 forecloses assertion of Rimmer’s claims and that…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Stone v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Mitchum v. FosterSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Thomas A. Guerro v. Roger F. Mulhearn, Ralph F. Andrews v. Kathy Decote YoungCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by36 opinions
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- William T. Hamlin v. E. C. Warren, Sheriff, Halifax CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1981
- William Johnson v. Alan Mateer, John Holmes, R. A. Dietrich, Steven Crockwell, Betty Lieu, All IndividualsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
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