Chicopee Lions Club v. DIST. ATTORNEY FOR HAMPDEN DIST

How courts have described this case

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• prosecutor immune from suit involving conduct “in discharge of [his] official duties”
• “[A]bsolute immunity from civil suit does not render the public entirely powerless to deter prosecutorial misconduct: elections and bar discipline proceedings are available mechanisms which may serve to check an overzealous district attorney.”
• “the better rule is that a prosecutor who is conducting an investigation of a particular criminal suspect for the purpose of gathering evidence in preparation for” a criminal prosecution “is engaged in quasi-judicial activity for the purpose of prosecutorial immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).