Nathson Fields v. Lawrence Wharrie

I agree that Fields’s claims against Kelley are barred by absolute immunity. See Majority op. at 1114-16. In our earlier opinion in this case, we held that Wharrie is absolutely immune from suit on similar allegations of misconduct — specifically, that Wharrie coerced Earl Hawkins to falsely implicate Fields in the 1984 murders of Taiman Hickman and Jerome Smith during the interval between Fields’s first and second trials, while his postcon-viction proceedings were ongoing and in anticipation of retrial. See Fields v. Wharrie (“Fields I”), 672 F.3d 505, 511-16 (7th Cir.2012). The allegations…