Supreme Court· 5/30/1991

Burns v. Reed

Citations

500 U.S. 478
111 S. Ct. 1934
114 L. Ed. 2d 547
1991 U.S. LEXIS 3018

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holding that a prosecutor was granted absolute immunity for the 27 presentation of evidence in support of a search warrant at a probable cause hearing
explaining that qualified rather than absolute immunity is presumed suf- ficient to protect government officials in the course of their duties
eliciting false or defamatory statements from witnesses in a judicial proceeding was immunized at common law
observing that absolute immunity extends to “alleged deliberate suppression of exculpatory evidence”
explaining that “prosecutors and other lawyers were absolutely immune from liability for damages at common law for making false or defamatory statements in judicial proceedings . . . and also for eliciting false and defamatory testimony from witnesses”
interpreting Imbler to extend prosecutorial immunity to “the alleged knowing use of false testimony at trial and the alleged deliberate suppression of exculpatory evidence”

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Judges: Scalia, White, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Blackmun, Marshall

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