By Harry S. Stern
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given an unlikely recipient a belated birthday present - a reversal of the district court's dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 action against the officers who arrested him. The 9th Circuit ruled that the drunk driver's plea in his criminal case was not a bar to his subsequent civil action. In so doing, they not only parsed the U.S. Supreme Court's holding in Heck v. Humphre...
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