{"id":18940,"date":"2015-09-25T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18940"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:30:13","slug":"ca3-appellate-order-reversing-revo-overcame-heck-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18940","title":{"rendered":"CA3: Appellate order reversing revo overcame Heck bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff had his probation revoked and reversed it on appeal. The appellate court\u2019s order, although not addressing his specific issue, was still a termination in his favor for the <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=8197947172835648464&#038;q=Heck&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=1002\">Heck<\/a> bar in a \u00a7 1983 case for wrongful prosecution. \u201cThis appeal raises a discrete issue involving claims for damages for unlawful incarceration brought under 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1983. We must decide whether an order from the Superior Court of Pennsylvania vacating a sentence imposed by a court of common pleas constitutes a favorable termination of the proceedings against a plaintiff within the meaning of Heck v. Humphrey \u2014 notwithstanding the fact that the order failed expressly to address the inmate&#8217;s specific legal challenges to the sentence. For the reasons that follow, we hold that such an order constitutes a favorable termination of the proceedings against the plaintiff and that any \u00a7 1983 claims stemming from the invalidated sentence are not barred by Heck. Accordingly, we will affirm in part and reverse in part the District Court&#8217;s order dismissing Appellant&#8217;s claims.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ca3.uscourts.gov\/opinarch\/134497p.pdf\">Bronowicz v. Allegheny County<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 16769 (3d Cir. September 22, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff had his probation revoked and reversed it on appeal. The appellate court\u2019s order, although not addressing his specific issue, was still a termination in his favor for the Heck bar in a \u00a7 1983 case for wrongful prosecution. \u201cThis &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18940\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18941,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940\/revisions\/18941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}