Legal Opinion
Nicole Howell v. Rob Sanders
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 2, 2012No. 10-5797PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Nicole Howell appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Rob Sanders on the basis of absolute and qualified prosecutorial immunity. Sanders is the Kentucky Commonwealth’s Attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District in Kentucky. Howell, a high school teacher, sued Sanders after a jury acquitted her of criminal charges brought by Sanders’s office relating to alleged sexual abuse of a minor student. Howell claimed constitutional violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state-law torts of malicious prosecution and intentional…
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