Billie M. Ireland v. Gary L. Tunis, Richard Thompson, John Meiers, and Richard D. Kuhn

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• holding that a prosecutor or investigator who vouches for truth of allegations in a complaint was not entitled to absolute immunity
• holding that prosecuting attorneys who prepared and presented the contents of a criminal complaint were entitled to absolute immunity
• holding that the prosecutor was entitled to absolute immunity notwithstanding alleged political motivations for his actions
• deciding to file a criminal complaint and seeking issuance of an arrest warrant are protected by absolute immunity
• deciding to file a criminal complaint and seeking issuance of an arrest warrant are protected by absolute immunity
• “Conducting a preliminary investigation is generally removed from a prosecutor’s role in a judicial proceeding; ‘such investigations take place outside the adversarial arena with its attendant safeguards that provide real and immediate checks to abusive practices.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).