QUESTION PRESENTED

Whether someone who was convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to one year of probation, yet never challenged her conviction via direct appeal, state-court collateral attack, or federal habeas petition, is barred from attacking her sentence for the first time in a civil lawsuit by the rule of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), and by analogous but independent state tort law principles.

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