Robert F. Davis v. James Grusemeyer, Raymond Gurak, Donald Yingling, David v. Brody, and Charles E. Waldron

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• establishing general rule that “investigators for a prosecutor performing investigative work in connection with a criminal prosecution deserve the same absolute immunity as the prosecutor”
• extending absolute immunity to employee working for attorney \when the employee's function is closely allied to the judicial process\
• explaining scope of “any legitimate prosecutorial role” in which absolute immunity would apply
• abrogation on other grounds recognized by Knight v. Poritz, 157 F. App’x. 481, 487 (3d Cir. 2005)
• “[T]he decision whether to continue a prosecution through to trial is at the heart of the prosecutorial decision making process and should not be chilled by fear of civil sanction.”
• “[T]he decision whether to continue a prosecution through to trial is at the heart of the prosecutorial decision making process and should not be chilled by fear of civil sanction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).