Tanner v. City of Federal Way

— A juvenile defendant was detained in jail for four days after he failed to appear for trial. The prosecutor *3had mistakenly filed the criminal complaint against him in adult court. He sued the prosecutor and the City, relying on Kalina v. Fletcher, 522 U.S. 118, 125-26, 118 S. Ct. 502, 507, 139 L. Ed. 2d 471 (1997) for the proposition that the prosecutor’s conduct amounted to that of a complaining witness, and therefore was not immune from liability. We hold that a prosecutor does not act as a complaining witness by certifying the presence of reasonable grounds to believe that the accused…