Olivier v. City of Brandon · ¶18

Some two decades later, though, the Court encountered Heck v. Humphrey, which the City now argues requires the opposite result. Roy Heck had been convicted in state court of manslaughter, and was serving a ffteen-year prison sentence. While his appeal was pending, he fled a § 1983 suit in federal court naming two prosecutors and a police investigator as defendants. Heck alleged that they had committed misconduct, such as destroying exculpatory evidence, to gain his conviction. He sought as a remedy monetary “damages attributable to [his] unconstitutional conviction.” 512 U. S., at 489–490. The question raised was whether § 1983 allowed the suit.

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