Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Can Prosecutors Be Sued By People They Framed?

At lunch today we talked about the NPR story Can Prosecutors Be Sued By People They Framed?

The Supreme Court has indeed said that prosecutors are immune from suit for anything they do at trial. But in this case, Harrington and McGhee maintain that before anyone being charged, prosecutors gathered evidence alongside police, interviewed witnesses and knew the testimony they were assembling was false.

The prosecutors counter that there is "no freestanding constitutional right not to be framed."


This sounds like the prosecutors are immune from both Criminal and Civil suits.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

quite right. imo