{"id":9299,"date":"2014-01-30T07:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:50:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:50:03","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9299","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Heck does not bar Ohio false arrest case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1983 case over the legality of plaintiff\u2019s arrest does not implicate the validity of his conviction because an illegal arrest does not prevent a trial in Ohio [and almost everywhere else]. Therefore, the case is not barred by Heck v. Humphrey. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/13a0759n-06.pdf\">Graves v. Mahoning County<\/a>, 534 Fed. Appx. 399 (6th Cir. 2013)*:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The district court erred because a finding of a Fourth Amendment violation would not necessarily imply the invalidity of their convictions. In Ohio, &#8220;an illegal arrest does not invalidate a subsequent conviction which is otherwise proper.&#8221; State v. Rutland, 786 N.E.2d 530, 533 (Ohio Ct. App. 2003) (quoting State v. Henderson, 554 N.E.2d 104, 106 (Ohio 1990)). In some cases, a Fourth Amendment violation invalidates a conviction where an unconstitutional search uncovered key evidence that must be suppressed. In this case, however, there is no allegation that authorities seized any evidence during the arrests. Thus, a finding that Graves&#8217;s and Sexton&#8217;s arrests violated the Fourth Amendment would not necessarily invalidate their convictions. For this reason, the Heck doctrine does not bar Graves and Sexton from bringing their claims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}