Christopher Covey v. Assessor of Ohio County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the knock-and-talk doctrine would permit police to proceed directly to a home’s patio area only if officers saw the defendant on the patio before they entered the curtilage
• explaining that the exception recognized in Wilson applies only if a petitioner could not have “practicably sought habeas relief while in custody”
• explaining that the exception recognized in Wilson applies only if a petitioner could not have “practicably sought habeas relief while in custody”
• noting that Heck did not bar a claim of unreasonable or illegal search where the conviction derived from a guilty plea and he never sought to suppress the evidence underlying his conviction
• noting that Rule 12(d) “provide[s] an option for a court to either (A) consider ‘matters outside the pleadings’ and treat a motion to dismiss ‘as one for summary judgment’ or (b) exclude the matters”
• recognizing Heck bars a Bivens claim if (1) a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction and (2) the claim is brought by a plaintiff currently in custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).