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Seventh Circuit Discusses Heck and Court Access Claims
The plaintiff sought damages for defendants' hindrance of his efforts to litigate a state court collateral attack on his conviction. The rule of Heck v. Humphrey, "which forbids a convicted person to seek damages on any theory that implies that his conviction was invalid without first getting the conviction set ...
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