Leo Henzel v. Richard Gerstein, Robert L. Shevin, Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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• absence of jurisdiction exception to immunity refers to when a judge acts in a purely private and nonjudicial capacity
• “[P]rosecutorial immunity extends to a prosecutor’s actions ... even where the prosecutor knowingly used perjured testimony.”
• “[P]rosecutorial immunity extends to a prosecutor’s actions in ‘initiating and pursuing a criminal prosecution and in presenting the state’s case . . . [E]ven where the prosecutor knowingly used perjured testimony, or failed to make full disclosure of all facts.’”
• barring claims that prosecutors used perjured testimony at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).