Jay Brummett v. Jimmy Camble, Jim Boles, Doug Sanders, Dan Boulware, John R. MacLean First State Bank of Cleburne, Texas, and Johnson County, Texas

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• concluding that state prosecutors were absolutely immune from a § 1983 action predicated on malicious prosecution
• explaining that “absolute immunity is justified and defined by the governmental functions it protects and serves, not by the motives with which a particular officer performs those functions”
• rejecting the contention that a prosecutor’s alleged conflict of interest precluded the application of prosecutorial immunity

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