Nahshon Jackson v. Suffolk County Homicide Bureau, Thomas P. Hughes

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• holding that excessive force claim under section 1983 could proceed where prevailing on such a claim would not call into question 3 validity of underlying state criminal conviction
• holding that Heck did not bar Fifth 7 Amendment claim for excessive force because “a 8 finding that excessive force had in fact been used 9 would not necessarily require invalidation of the 10 conviction”
• finding excessive force claim under section 1983 not barred as “lack[ing] the requisite relationship to the conviction”
• reversing dismissal of excessive force claim pursuant to Heck because a finding that excessive force had in fact been used would not necessarily require the invalidation of the conviction
• “[A] claim for use of excessive force lacks the requisite relationship to the conviction. . . . [A] finding that excessive force had in fact been used would not necessarily require the invalidation of the conviction.”
• although all of plaintiff's 42 U. S. C. § 1983 claims arose out of a single state-court criminal proceeding, plaintiff's First Amendment claims did not arise out of the same conduct as the originally asserted excessive force claims, and therefore did not relate back

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