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Plaintiff’s Fourth Amendment illegal search claim accrued at the time of the occurrence, and there was no Heck<\/a> bar at the time. Kirkland v. Doe, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101472 (D. N.J. December 15, 2008):<\/p>\n

Although Wallace<\/a> only directly addressed the issue of whether the Heck<\/a> bar applied to a false arrest claim, its reasoning is equally applicable to a claim for illegal search and seizure. See Dominguez v. Hendley, 545 F.3d 585, 589 (7th Cir. 2008) (citing Wallace<\/a> for the proposition that “Fourth Amendment claims as a group do not necessarily imply the invalidity of a criminal conviction, and so such claims are not suspended under the Heck<\/a> bar to suit.”); see also Mallard v. Potenza, No. 94-cv-222, 2007 WL 4198246, at *3 (E.D.N.Y. Nov. 21, 2007) (noting that courts have found it a “rather modest leap” to extend Wallace<\/a>‘s holding to search and seizure claims). Here, as in Wallace<\/a>, there was no conviction in existence at the time the illegal search and seizure took place. Hence, the Heck<\/a> bar does not apply and the two-year statute of limitations has long expired for that claim. This Court agrees with other courts in finding that Wallace<\/a> supersedes the Third Circuit’s analysis in Gibson of \u00a7 1983 claims for Fourth Amendment violations. Kirkland concedes that Wallace<\/a> applies to his Fourth Amendment claims (Pl.’s Br. 5) and that the Heck<\/a> bar does not defer accrual of those claims. Because Kirkland did not file his Complaint until after the two-year statute of limitations on his Fourth Amendment claims expired, those claims are dismissed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Comment:<\/em> They get you coming and going. Heck led people to not file claims while they awaited the outcome of the Fourth Amendment claim, then Wallace holds it accrued in the beginning. Gotcha.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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