Civil proceedings brought by a convicted person seeking damages against participants in the criminal justice system, where the proceedings are in substance a collateral attack on the conviction and all issues have been previously litigated, constitute an abuse of process under the Hunter principles. An appellate court is not disqualified by apprehended bias merely because proposed defendants include current or past members of that court, where the question to be determined is the limited one of whether the proposed proceedings constitute an abuse of process.
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