United States v. Debruyn

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• holding that absolute immunity barred claims that a prosecutor made false representations to prompt a plea agreement and then breached the agreement
• holding that prosecutorial immunity applies to, inter alia, claims of misrepresentations in prompting a plea agreement or breaching a plea agreement
• concluding that “actions in connection with a bail application are best understood as components of the initiation and presentation of a prosecution, and therefore are protected by absolute immunity”
• holding that “actions in connection with a bail application” are covered by absolute immunity
• suggesting that prosecutors’ role in arranging repeated transfers of defendant from county jail to county courthouse would not be covered by absolute immunity
• noting that a prosecutor’s “conduct in a sentencing proceeding would be pro tected by absolute prosecutorial immunity”

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