DeLeon v. City of Corpus Christi

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Supreme Court in Wallace refused to extend Heck's application to pending criminal matters
• confirming that Wallace did not extend Heck's application to pending criminal matters
• barring excessive force claim where plaintiff claimed he did nothing wrong and “provide[d] no alternative pleading or theory of recovery”
• “A preferred order of dismissal in Heck cases decrees, ‘Plaintiff[’]s claims are dismissed with prejudice to their being asserted again until the Heck conditions are met.’”
• “The Heck court held that a civil tort action, including an action under section 1983, is not an appropriate vehicle for challenging the validity of outstanding criminal judgments.”
• claims of malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, and false arrest barred by Heck

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).