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· 2/10/1984

Arthur B. Powers v. Glenn E. Coe and Austin J. McGuigan

Citations

  • 728 F.2d 97
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 25539

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • arguing “[t]he finding in the R&R that the [TAC] adequately pled personal involvement of . . . Spota . . . sets an impractical and unworkable precedent”
  • “We believe that a prosecutor must be permitted to work with a grand jury totally free of the threat of civil suit.”
  • “We believe that at the heart of the prosecutor’s job is the decision whether to prosecute . . . .”
  • “[t]he alleged breach of the agreement not to prosecute, while not technically a plea bargain which would render the prosecutor’s immunity absolute ... is so closely analogous to a plea bargain that we think the same principle of absolute immunity applfies]”
  • plea bargaining covered by prosecutorial immunity
  • bright lines avoided in prior decisions

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Judges: Oakes, Kearse, Winter

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