Frank McKithen v. Richard Brown, District Attorney, County of Queens, New York

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• holding that pleadings and allegations of a pro se plaintiff must be construed liberally in Rule 12(b)(6) motions
• holding that pleadings and allegations of a pro se plaintiff must be construed liberally in Rule 12(b)(6) motions
• holding that pleadings and allegations of a pro se plaintiff must be construed liberally in a Rule 12(b)(6) motion
• agreeing that a claim seeking postconviction access to evidence for DNA testing may be properly brought as a § 1983 suit
• noting that DNA’s availability in clemency proceedings might necessitate a deviation from the “trial-focused” reasonable probability standard
• concluding “that the governing standard for application of the Preiser-Heck exception, then, is whether a prisoner’s victory in a § 1983 suit would necessarily demonstrate the invalidity of his conviction or sentence”

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