Smith v. State ex rel. Department of Administration

|2FOGG, Judge.

This writ application seeks review of the trial court’s denial of relators’ motion for summary judgment. At issue is the extent of prosecutorial immunity from suit for malicious prosecution as a consequence of conduct intimately associated with the judicial phase of the criminal process.

In the latter part of 1989, Terrebonne Parish District Attorney, Douglas Greenburg, and the State Inspector General, Bill Lynch, began separate investigations of Kirk Manufacturing, Inc. (Kirk’s), a company located in Houma, concerning Kirk’s business affairs with the Parish of Terrebonne and the…