Robert Saterdalen v. James Spencer

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• prosecutor entitled to absolute immunity because his acts in reviewing and approving the complaint against plaintiff were taken to initiate the criminal prosecution
• under Rule 12(b)(6), court may consider some public records or materials “necessarily embraced by the pleadings”
• Eighth Circuit reaffirming holding in Imbler, that prosecutors are absolutely immune for acts done in the role of an advocate for the State
• de novo review of district court’s grant of judgment on the pleadings
• absolute immunity applied to prosecutor’s acts in reviewing and approving complaint
• “Where the alleged constitutional violation involves an arrest pursuant to a warrant, ‘the fact that a neutral magistrate has issued a warrant is the clearest indication that the officers acted in an objectively reasonable manner.’” (brackets omitted

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