Michael D. Porter v. Bob White

How courts have described this case

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• § 1983 action based on a prosecutor’s failure to comply with Brady is barred because the prosecutor has absolute immunity
• “[Ijrrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution,” “the prosecution is charged with a Brady violation” when “favorable, material evidence exclusively in the hands of the prosecution team fails to reach the defense.”
• “[W]e hold that mere USCA11 Case: 22-10886 Document: 45-1 Date Filed: 01/03/2024 Page: 13 of 15 22-10886 Opinion of the Court 13 officers enjoy the same absolute immunity as lay witnesses for their testimony at trial … or in front of the grand jury.” (citations omit- ted)
• citied favorably in Tennison, 570 F.3d at 1088

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).