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Martinez v. Albuquerque, No. 98-2235 (10th Cir.) (184 F.3d 1123) (June 15, 1999) (Judge Bobby R. Baldock)

In this case the Tenth Circuit held that a would-be civil rights plaintiff's conviction for resisting arrest does not necessarily prevent him, under the rule of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), from maintaining a 42 USC § 1983 action alleging that the arresting officers used excessive force, The ...

 

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