Hart v. Hodges

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• remanding issue of qualified immunity to the district court for determination
• prosecutors are entitled to absolute immunity for all actions taken within their roles as advocates for the government
• “Prosecutors are immune for appearances before a court and conduct in the courtroom . . . .”
• “[T]he absolute immunity doctrine has evolved such that even wrongful or malicious acts by prosecutors are allowed to go unredressed.”
• prosecutors are entitled to absolute immunity when they “fil[e] an information without investigation” or “fil[e] charges without jurisdiction”
• first quoting Jones v. Cannon, 174 F.3d 1271, 1281 (11th Cir. 1999); and then citing Rowe v. City of Fort Lauderdale, 279 F.3d 1271, 1279 (11th Cir. 2002)

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