Cousin v. Small

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prosecutor’s alleged solicitation of false testimony was protected by absolute immunity because suspect already was identified and probable cause already was established
• holding that prosecutor acts as advocate in connection with interview “intended to secure evidence that would be used in the presentation of the state’s case at the pending trial of an already identified suspect”
• holding that “the suppression of exculpatory evidence is shielded by absolute immunity”
• holding that absolute immunity is \functional rather than temporal\
• holding a showing of deliberate indifference usually requires a plaintiff to “demonstrate a pattern of violations”
• finding that “detention of witnesses to prevent them from testifying in criminal proceedings, while unlawful and improper, is nonetheless shielded by absolute immunity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).