William Douglas Carter v. William T. Burch Vernon Beamer, and John R. Isom Jeffrey Brown

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• holding that absolute immunity protects a prosecutor from liability for failing to give defense counsel materially exculpatory evidence
• holding that a prosecutor is shielded by absolute immunity when deciding whether or when to turn over exculpatory information
• holding that a prosecutor is shielded by absolute immunity when deciding sities or when to turn over exculpatory information
• holding that prosecutor’s decision to withhold exculpatory evidence was protected from suit by prosecutorial immunity
• holding that prosecutors are absolutely immune 22 for alleged Brady violations because the decision of whether to disclose evidence is indisputably a prosecutorial function
• concluding that a judge’s findings in a different proceeding should be excluded under Rule 403 because it is likely a jury would “place[] undue weight on such evidence”

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