Wilkinson v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

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• which distinguished interviewing witnesses to prepare testimony for proper presentation of the case from factual interviews “no different in kind from that of a police officer.”
• absolute immunity for false statements if closely related to ongoing prosecution, involving legal judgment, made in advocatory role; but only qualified immunity for destruction of evidence
• prosecutors failed to intervene when police officers beat the defendant while in their presence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).