Sanchez v. Doyle

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding police officials act in a judicial capacity in performing bail setting functions and are entitled to absolute immunity from liability in section 1983 actions
• prosecutor absolutely immune for ordering police to set bail at an allegedly excessive level prior to bail being set by a court
• “Absolute prosecutorial immunity shields conduct that can be characterized as intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process, or alternatively formulated as acting in a role as advocate for the State.”
• “setting bail is judicial act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).