Legal Opinion
Kalina v. Fletcher
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 10, 1997No. 96-792PublishedCited by 1,134 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The question presented is whether 42 U. S. C. § 1988 creates a damages remedy against a prosecutor for making false statements of faet in an affidavit supporting an application for an arrest warrant, or whether, as she contends, such conduct is protected by “the doctrine of absolute prosecutorial immunity.”
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Petitioner is a deputy prosecuting attorney for King County, Washington. Following customary practice, on December 14, 1992, she commenced a criminal proceeding *121against respondent by filing three documents in the King County Superior Court. Two of those documents — an information charging…
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