Roy Heck v. James Humphrey, Dearborn County Prosecutor, Robert Ewbank, Attorney, and Michael Krinoph, Indiana State Police Investigator

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• applying state equitable tolling to suspend limitations period for § 1983 plaintiff seeking to bring habeas claim
• \[A] body of state tolling law that lacks a provision for equitable tolling is inconsistent with the provision of a complete federal remedy under section 1983 and therefore is overridden by the federal doctrine.\
• “[N]o matter how much his carelessness or sloth may have contributed to the delay in the prosecution of his claim, the doctrine of equitable tolling gives the plaintiff just so much extra time as he needs, despite all due diligence on his part, to file his claim.”

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