Robert Cramer v. B. L. Crutchfield

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• holding that search and seizure claim under § 1983 subject to Virginia's two-year statute of limitations for per- sonal injuries
• finding that the plaintiff’s abuse of process and malicious prosecution claims failed because “he was accorded the full measure of the due process of law to which he was entitled under the Fourteenth Amendment”
• explaining cause of action for illegal search and seizure accrues on date of search
• failure to raise fourth amendment claim in state trial acts as a waiver of § 1983 claim based on an alleged fourth amendment violation
• state statute of limitations for personal injury actions applied in § 1983 suit
• “A valid cause of action under § 1983 is not alleged simply by the assertion that a common law tort was committed by a state official.”

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