Legal Opinion
Warnick v. Cooley
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 9, 2018No. 17-4065PublishedCited by 226 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.
Silvan Warnick brings this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 malicious prosecution case and a number of state law tort claims against several Salt Lake County prosecutors and investigators. He claims he was falsely accused of tampering with evidence that led to the filing of criminal charges against him that were later dismissed.
*749 The district court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss, and Warnick appealed. We affirm. Like the district court, we find that absolute prosecutorial immunity precludes Warnick from suing the prosecutors for filing charges, and that Warnick has failed to…
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