Kortesis v. Medical Park Hospital Inc.

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• holding that claim against prosecutors for destruction of exculpatory evidence is barred by absolute prosecutorial immunity
• holding that a prosecutor is absolutely immune from a suit claiming that he destroyed and falsified evidence
• holding that a prosecutor is entitled to absolute immunity from suit claiming that he destroyed and falsified evidence
• explaining that the charge that prosecutors destroyed evidence is “barred by the doctrine of absolute official immunity” (referencing Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 427 (1976))
• finding claims that prosecutors destroyed and falsified evidence and suborned perjury barred by absolute immunity
• distinguishing the defense of \absolute immunity\ from \failure to state a claim\

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