Cathy Burns v. Rick Reed

CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

This ease presents the narrow question of whether the defendant, a Muncie, Indiana, deputy prosecuting attorney, is entitled to qualified immunity from suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for his actions concerning the 1982 interrogation and subsequent arrest of plaintiff Cathy Bums for allegedly shooting her two sons. Defendant authorized interrogation of plaintiff while she was under hypnosis and later advised Muncie police officers, based primarily on the results of the hypnosis session, that they had probable cause to arrest plaintiff. As it turned out, both of these…