Britt v. Legal Aid Society, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A] criminal legal malpractice plaintiff cannot assert innocence while the criminal charges remain pending.”
• ‘‘[t]he principle . . . that ‘civil tort actions are not appropriate vehicles for chal- lenging the validity of outstanding criminal judgments’ . . . applies with equal force to [criminal malpractice claims]’’ (citation omitted)
• “In order to open the door for even a colorable claim of innocence, criminal defendants must free themselves of the conviction, for the conviction prechides those potential plaintiffs from asserting innocence in a civil suit”
• “In order to open the door for even a colorable claim of innocence, criminal defendants must free themselves of the conviction, for the conviction prechides those potential plaintiffs from asserting innocence in a civil suit”
• malicious prosecution claim accrues after prosecution terminates in the plaintiff’s favor
• exoneration required, blended with need for proof of actual innocence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).