United States Sixth Circuit

A district attorney general and private attorneys are entitled to absolute immunity from a suit arising from a section 1983 plaintiff's overturned murder conviction, as the test for determining if absolute prosecutorial immunity is appropriate turns on the nature of the prosecutorial function performed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/11/2003
• Decided 06/19/2003
• Published 06/19/2003

Judges

• Before:  DAVID A. NELSON, COLE and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rick Halprin (argued and briefed), Chicago, IL, Chantal M. Elddridge (briefed), Cookeville, TN, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Martha A. Campbell (argued and briefed), Senior Counsel, Civil Rights and Claims Division, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, TN, Samuel D. Payne (argued and briefed), Winston S. Evans (briefed), Evans, Jones & Reynolds, Nashville, TN, Jon E. Jones (argued and briefed), Law Office of Jon E. Jones, Cookeville, TN, Daniel H. Rader III (argued and briefed), Richard Lane Moore(briefed), Moore, Rader, Clift & Fitzpatrick, Cookeville, TN, for Appellees.