{"id":37543,"date":"2019-05-06T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37543"},"modified":"2019-05-04T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:07:22","slug":"s-d-ga-heck-explained-in-4a-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=37543","title":{"rendered":"S.D.Ga.: <em>Heck<\/em> explained in 4A terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining Heck: This case involves alleged illegally admitted statements, but it\u2019s explained in terms of the Fourth Amendment. Edwards v. Perry, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74480 (S.D. Ga. May 3, 2019):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some \u00a7 1983 claims, due to their very nature, are incompatible with the conviction as a matter of law. Id. at 879. Other claims, however, can resolve in the plaintiff&#8217;s favor without disturbing the conviction because, even after a successful claim, there remains an independent &#8220;construction of the facts that would allow the underlying conviction to stand.&#8221; Id. For example, Fourth Amendment claims related to unreasonable searches and seizures are not necessarily barred under Heck, even when the evidence was admitted at trial, because &#8220;illegal searches may be followed by valid convictions.&#8221; Harvey v. United States, 681 F. App&#8217;x 850, 853 (11th Cir. 2017) (citing Heck, 512 U.S. at 487 n.7) (&#8220;[A] suit for damages arising out of an allegedly unreasonable search &#8230; may proceed even if evidence from the challenged search was introduced in the criminal trial that resulted in the plaintiff&#8217;s conviction.&#8221;). This is because other evidence might support the conviction or other legal doctrines (e.g., inevitable discovery, independent source) could provide alternative grounds for admissibility. Harvey, 681 F. App&#8217;x at 853 (citing Heck, 512 U.S. at 487 n.7); Pritchett v. Farr, 592 F. App&#8217;x 816, 819 (11th Cir. 2014); Hughes v. Lott, 350 F.3d 1157, 1161 (11th Cir. 2003). In such a circumstance, courts &#8220;must &#8216;look both to the claims raised under \u00a7 1983 and to the specific offenses for which the \u00a7 1983 claimant was convicted.'&#8221; Harvey, 681 F. App&#8217;x at 853-54 (11th Cir. 2017) (quoting Hughes, 350 F.3d at 1160 n.2). &#8220;When the circumstances surrounding a conviction cannot be discerned from the record&#8221; and it is otherwise &#8220;impossible for a court to determine whether a successful \u00a7 1983 damages action &#8230; would necessarily imply that the conviction is invalid,&#8221; the claim is not barred by Heck. Id. at 853 (quoting Hughes, 350 F.3d at 1160 n.2).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explaining Heck: This case involves alleged illegally admitted statements, but it\u2019s explained in terms of the Fourth Amendment. Edwards v. Perry, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 74480 (S.D. Ga. May 3, 2019):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37544,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37543\/revisions\/37544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}