{"id":38294,"date":"2019-06-26T03:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38294"},"modified":"2019-06-26T03:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:28:41","slug":"d-conn-ptfs-%c2%a7-1983-case-over-his-search-that-led-to-his-conviction-is-barred-by-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38294","title":{"rendered":"D.Conn.: Ptf&#8217;s \u00a7 1983 case over his search that led to his conviction is barred by <em>Heck<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s suit against his search and seizure that led to his conviction is barred by Heck v. Humphrey. \u201cThe appropriate vehicle for such a challenge is not \u00a7 1983 litigation, but direct or collateral appeal.\u201d Gonzalez v. Yepes, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105847 (D. Conn. June 25, 2019).*<\/p>\n<p>This is a \u00a7 1988 attorneys fee claim from a 2007 raid involving about 100 police officers. The case dragged on forever. Finally, after a six week trial, all but one defendant got directed verdicts and the remaining one had a verdict for $5400 for nine plaintiffs of over $1M sought for an overlong detention. This attorneys fees motion followed seeking $3.8M in attorneys fees. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying attorneys fees for their having no relation to the amount awarded. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ca.gov\/opinions\/documents\/G054027.PDF\">Guillory v. Hill<\/a>, 2019 Cal. App. LEXIS 578 (4th Dist. June 25, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s suit against his search and seizure that led to his conviction is barred by Heck v. Humphrey. \u201cThe appropriate vehicle for such a challenge is not \u00a7 1983 litigation, but direct or collateral appeal.\u201d Gonzalez v. Yepes, 2019 U.S. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38294\">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":[45,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-abstention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38294","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=38294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38296,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38294\/revisions\/38296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}