Opinions of the United
2009 Decisions States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit
5-27-2009
Sheldon Craig Jackso v. City of Phila Police
Precedential or Non-Precedential: Non-Precedential
Docket No. 08-4494
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AMENDED
ALD-163 NOT PRECEDENTIAL
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
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No. 08-4494
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SHELDON CRAIG JACKSON,
Appellant
v.
THE CITY OF PHILA. POLICE DEPARTMENT,
AND HIS TWO PLAIN CLOTHES POLICE OFFICERS;
MARILYN MURRAY, ASSISTANT D.A.
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On Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
(D.C. Civil No. 08-04553)
District Judge: Honorable John P. Fullam
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Submitted for Possible Dismissal Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)
or Summary Action Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 27.4 and I.O.P. 10.6
April 23, 2009
Before: SLOVITER, FUENTES and JORDAN, Circuit Judges
(Opinion filed: May 27, 2009)
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OPINION
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PER CURIAM
Sheldon Jackson filed this pro se § 1983 action in the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, alleging multiple violations of his constitutional rights in connection with
the arrest and prosecution that led to his current incarceration. The District Court
dismissed the complaint as Heck-barred, and Jackson timely appealed from that order.
For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.
On June 15, 2004, Jackson pleaded nolo contendere in the Philadelphia Court of
Common Pleas to charges of attempted sexual assault and corrupting the morals of a
minor. He was sentenced to an aggregate term of incarceration of six to twelve years.
Jackson has attempted, without success, to invalidate his conviction on several occasions
over the last four years by way of collateral attack proceedings. In the instant civil action,
Jackson claims that Appellees have violated his Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Due
Process rights because his conviction was predicated on their “false information, false
arrest, false detention, false conviction, [and] false trial.” He also professes his “actual
innocence” of criminal wrongdoing.
The doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), precludes § 1983 claims
whose success “would necessarily imply the invalidity” of a conviction or sentence that
has not already been reversed, expunged, declared invalid, or called into question by a
federal court’s issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. Id. at 487. The District Court
properly concluded that this doctrine applies to Jackson’s § 1983 action, as none of the
aforementioned prerequisites is present in his case.
There being no substantial question presented by Jackson’s appeal, we will
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summarily affirm the District Court’s order. See LAR 27.4; I.O.P. 10.6. Jackson’s
pending motion for summary action is denied.
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