Legal Opinion
Robert McGruder v. Albert L. Necaise, William Eugene Henry and State of Mississippi
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 8, 1984No. 83-4570PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REAYLEY, Circuit Judge:
We must determine whether certain threats allegedly made by the individual defendants during the course of plaintiff’s prosecution were within the immunity extended to prosecutors and whether the State of Mississippi was entitled to its immunity under the Eleventh Amendment. The district court upheld both immunities and dismissed the complaint. We affirm.
I
According to plaintiff's allegations, which we take as true, Robert McGruder was arrested in September 1981 and charged with stealing a small amount of beer. A Mississippi grand jury later indicted him as an habitual…
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