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Eighth Circuit: Heck Bars False Imprisonment Claim
Loaded on June 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2013, page 31
In an April 19, 2012 decision, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal district court that Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) [PLN, Sept. 1994, p.12] barred a Minnesota prisoner's claim that prison officials unlawfully confined him for 375 days beyond his supervised release eligibility date.…
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